Wolfendale Street Quotes & Sayings

Or on retiring to Prunesquallors' he might take down one of the Doctor's many books and read, for these days a passion to accumulate knowledge of any and every kind consumed him; but only as a means to an end. He must know all things, for only so might he have, when situations arose in the future, a full pack of cards to play from. He imagined himself occasions when the conversation of one from who he foresaw advancement might turn to astronomy, metaphysics, history, chemistry, or literature, and he realized that to be able to drop into the argument a lucid and exact thought, an opinion based on what might *appear* to be a life-time study, would instantaneously gain more for him than waiting until the conversation turned upon what lay within his scope of experience. — Mervyn Peake

Therefore by the example of Abram, entire self-renunciation is enjoined, that we may live and die to God alone. — John Calvin

The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence. — Allen Ellow

Poor little Roxxi, she felt as if she was a tiny fish that had suddenly been thrown into the large sea. — Amy Benton

Can I...can I call my family?" Carter stammered. "One last time?"
"What did I just say?" Vincent snapped. "Starting now, you don't have a family. You belong to us. — Kol Anderson

Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings - that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it. — P.D. Ouspensky