Fenlong Quotes & Sayings

The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive. — Scott Belsky

- Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be separate from all others but to have not even one friend.
- I will take the risk, said Stephen.
- And not to have any one person, Cranly said, who would be more than a friend, more even than the noblest and truest friend a man ever had. — James Joyce

You're quite right," said MacMaster. "You're putting your finger on the thing that matters. If you think it over, you know, that's always the interesting part of any murder. What the person was like who was murdered. Everybody's always so busy inquiring into the mind of the murderer. You've been thinking, probably, that Mrs. Argyle was the sort of woman who shouldn't have been murdered." "I should imagine that everyone felt that." "Ethically," said MacMaster, "you're quite right. But you know" - he rubbed his nose - "isn't it the Chinese who held that beneficence is to be accounted a sin rather than a virtue? They've got something there, you know. Beneficence does things to people. Ties 'em up in knots. We all know what human nature's like. Do a chap a good turn and you feel kindly towards him. You like him. But the chap who's had the good turn done to him, does he feel so kindly to — Agatha Christie

God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today ... We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and innate powers of God have been developed to a God-like degree. Thus he has become God. — John Andreas Widtsoe

Thinking, Garraty thought. That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. — Stephen King

Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty. — Rod Stewart

The energy of gratitude catapults us into the most profound experiences imaginable. — James F. Twyman

If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical. — Rumi

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right. — Hermann Hesse

After you have narrowed down your book title ideas to only a few, you can test them to find the one that works best. The easiest way is to ask friends' opinions. Show them different titles and have them pick the one they like best. You might also get some ideas to improve it. — Chaiwat Theerasong

Gordon Keith was the son a gentleman. — Thomas Nelson Page

I was busy thinking about the mystery of expanding network of seemingly unasawerable questions. — Patti Smith

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion ... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself ... no! — Jean Paul Gaultier

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures. — Serge Gainsbourg