Forwood Christie Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to go out the door to know what goes on in the world. You don't have to look out the window to see the way of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. So the wise soul doesn't go, but knows; doesn't look, but sees; doesn't do, but gets it done. — Lao-Tzu

And, at the end of a long night, as you crawl under the duvet, there is a sense of quiet satisfaction in knowing that the rest of the working world is just setting out on the morning commute. * — John Sutherland

There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well. — Carl Bernstein

Characteristics cling to families. — Francis Galton

No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity. — Faith Ringgold

It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them. — Martin Rees

She and her sister were dressed in purple, with gold buckles at their throats by way of brooches, and another gold buckle each at the end of hatpins which they wore through their grey hair in order apparently to match their brooches. Their faces, identical to the point of indecency, were quite expressionless, as though they were the preliminary lay-outs for faces and were waiting for sentience to be injected. — Mervyn Peake

It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret. — Niccolo Machiavelli

She wanted to build a better world. So why did so many others want to keep it just the same? — Kameron Hurley

I'm on my way," Ranger said. "I'm about ten minutes from Quaker Bridge. I'll call when I have her. — Janet Evanovich

Here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness. — Edna Ferber

This [...] government [...] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man cam bend it to his will. — Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through. — Cynthia Ozick

Sleeping, as Nietzsche put it, 'is no mean art; you need to stay awake all — Kieran Conway

The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is. — Genevieve Behrend