Weimar Institute Quotes & Sayings

I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party. — Zoe Heller

There's no such thing as a perfect person in this world. — Gosho Aoyama

When amusement is necessary to get people to listen to the gospel there will be failure. This is not the method of Christ. To form an organization and provide all kinds of entertainment for young people, in order that they may come to the Bible classes, is to be foredoomed to failure. — G. Campbell Morgan

It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth! — Rabindranath Tagore

The fanciful theory that a person's life was etched on their physical form - be it despair, happiness, or in this case sheer depravity - was entirely disproved by Blaine. That, or she already had a huge portrait or herself slowly decaying in the attic. — Tabitha McGowan

I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready? — Andrea Riseborough

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading. — Florence Nightingale

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise. — Abu Bakr

When you think about it, being trained by a Gladiator is almost as good as being trained by the SAS. — Dave Franklin

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number. — H. Rider Haggard