Frontpiece Quotes & Sayings

Short as to the composure, but full of length and strength as to the matter. This Psalm carries blessedness in the frontpiece; it begins where we all hope to end: it may well be called a Christian's Guide, for it discovers the quicksands where the wicked sink down in perdition, and the firm ground on which the saints tread to glory. - Thomas Watson's Saints Spiritual Delight, 1660. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of. — Jake Gyllenhaal

This also means that philosophy itself must not take itself as established in the truths it has managed to utter, that philosophy is an ever-renewed experiment of its own beginning, and finally, that radical reflection is conscious of its own dependence on an unreflected life that is its initial, constant, and final situation. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The Gods give with one hand and take with the other. — George R R Martin

I'm sure it must have been even more wonderful then, when we were young and knew nothing about the pain of growing up. — Yoko Ogawa

All efforts of reason and analysis are, in a word, like trying to slice through a watermelon with sewing needles. They may leave marks on the outer rind, but the fruity pulp will remain perpetually out of reach. — Haruki Murakami

A small part of me was glad. There's always relief in giving up. — Lauren Oliver