Ewald Hartford Quotes & Sayings

When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are sharing in something that hundreds of millions of people have read with love, and I think that this is worth holding onto. It is not a matter of canonical texts or elitism, which the universities are trying to make us wary about. It is about shared language and metaphor and experience and imagery and that is all good. — Robert Dessaix

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition. — Tallulah Bankhead

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything. — Harry Browne

Ive never shown my weakness, I will never show my weakness. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing. — Erica Lorraine Scheidt

Any land is your country where you can live happy. — Publilius Syrus

Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life ... Grace is costly because it compels a man to submit to the yoke of Christ and follow him; it is grace because Jesus says: My yoke is easy and my burden is light. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet's eyes. — Vera Brittain

This approach goes back to the ancient philosophers. Every bit of the philosophy they developed was intended to reshape, prepare, and fortify them for the challenges to come. Many saw themselves as mental athletes - after all, the brain is a muscle like any other active tissue. It can be built up and toned through the right exercises. Over time, their muscle memory grew to the point that they could intuitively respond to every situation. Especially obstacles. — Anonymous