Quotes of: Letter Keyword

[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

The Screwtape Letters

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

So Long a Letter

L'amitié a des grandeurs inconnues de l'amour. Elle se fortifie dans les difficultés, alors que les contraintes massacrent l'amour. Elle résiste au temps qui laisse et désunit les couples. Elle a des élévations inconnues de l'amour.

So Long a Letter

We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

The Screwtape Letters

Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous.

A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT’S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]

Mr. Fox

The letters of my name are scrambled like eggs. They should be sunny side up, like Dark Jar Tin Zoo.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

He thought again of the watch in the window. It had twelve black numbers on its moon face and there was magic to that. For these were numbers that were not really numbers at all but letters like in words. He shivered at the possibilities of such unto...

The Night of the Hunter

Love is a four-letter word. So is glue, only it isn’t as sticky. And I must admit, I still eat it all the time.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you. Go for that communion, that real communion with your soul, and the discipline of expressing that communion with others. That doesn't come from competition. That comes f...

Letters to a Young Artist

The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns past and she suddenly wished that it was appropriate for someone her age to do such a thing.

Letters In Cardboard Boxes

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.

Letters from Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley

What "inspires" my books? Really I don't know. Does anyone know where exactly an idea comes from? With me all fiction pictures in my head. But where the pictures come from I couldn't say.

Letters to Children

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

Letter to My Daughter

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

Letter to My Daughter

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

Letters to Friends, Family and Editors

Pride is instilled. It's what we carry with us every day of our lives.

Letters to My Daughter: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems about Love, Pride, and Identity

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun sho...

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

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Letters to John Law