"You have to wait together - for a……" — Ford Madox Ford
"You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love."
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35 Quotes by Ford Madox Ford
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The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and…
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The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists -…
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In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands…
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If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.…
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It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is…
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Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to…
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What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of…
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I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is…
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Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English…
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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
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And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at…
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If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court…
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons…
— Chanakya
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
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Nothing adventured, nothing attained
— Peter McWilliams
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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