Old Schoolmates Quotes & Sayings

If one clung too closely to reality, the result might well be far from realistic. — Kobo Abe

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints. — A.S. Byatt

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom. — James Baldwin

I will speak only those things that I want to see in my life and the life of others. Whatever I speak into the lives of others will come back to me therefore I choose to be careful with what I say. — Charlene Brown

Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In the light of the glory of the vision we go forth to do things, but the vision is not real in us yet; and God has to take us into the valley, and put us through fires and floods to batter us into shape, until we get to the place where He can trust us ... Let Him put you on His wheel and whirl you as He likes, and as sure as God is God and you are you, you will turn out exactly in accordance with the vision. Don't lose heart in the process. — Oswald Chambers