Quotes of: Five Keyword

For the first five years of your son's life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.

Indian

Your five year old son is your instructor; at ten your slave; at fifteen your equal and after that either friend or foe.

Turkish

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been removed. Their places had been taken by the living.

The Five Gates of Hell

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve.

The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

The Five Orange Pips

Most companies that win don't have a unique strategy; quite the opposite, they are doing what everyone else is doing but have figured out how to execute better.

Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies

When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.

A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

He's God....and his grace is a part of him working relentlessly on our behalf...never leaving, never abandoning, never stopping.

Anchored in Light: Understanding and Overcoming the Five Deadliest Threats to Your Faith

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it can be freely practiced.

The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

Meet me tonight, six o’clock sharp, at the gates of the municipal hospital. It is very important that you are precise. Not five minutes early, not five minutes late. In case I’m not there, you leave straight away. Got it?” Ingrid aka ‘Alis K�...

The Informer

Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be.

Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

A Separate Peace