Lucy Maud Montgomery Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea - a beckoning, an inkling of some truth - it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity. — Lawren Harris

There is no God. And that's His only Commandment. — Glen Duncan

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. — D.H. Lawrence

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions — Henry Mintzberg

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct. — Marie Corelli

For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent nonpsalmic "worship" based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy. — N. T. Wright

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy. — Enya

I think people do expect something a little weird to happen. Maybe they've seen something I did once on the Internet and expect that I'm gonna do that every night. — Mac DeMarco

We spend our waning strength to no avail. For till we be sure where the Dragon will pass, it is vain to climb.' 'But — J.R.R. Tolkien

What I saw most in you, though, was your mother. — Jodi Picoult

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both. — John Cleese