Helwys Society Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps you're right; we don't ever regain what we lightly lose. — Winston Graham

He would return in half an hour - or in less. He walked away and I sat there alone, conscious, on the dark dismantled simplified scene, in the deep silence that rests on American towns during the hot season - there was now and then a far cry or a plash in the water, and at intervals the tinkle of the bells of the horse-cars on the long bridge, slow in the suffocating night - of the strange influence, half-sweet, half-sad, that abides in houses uninhabited or about to become so, in places muffled and bereaved, where the unheeded sofas and patient belittered tables seem (like the disconcerted dogs, to whom everything is alike sinister) to recognise the eve of a journey. — Henry James

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return. — Sheila Heti

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. — Solomon Short

It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony. — Henri Matisse

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team. — John Doerr

I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front. — Garry Shandling

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die. — Hector Hugh Munro

No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business. — Peter Gallagher