Eric Newby Quotes

#1. You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!

Thomas Hardy

#2. We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

John Powell

#3. The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

Stanley Hauerwas

#4. In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.

Eric Newby

#5. I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. The rebuilding of some radical alternatives to Thatcherism - and by that I mean all-party Thatcherism - will require us to do some very difficult things

Tony Benn

#6. We all face things that appear to make little sense and don't seem to serve any good purpose. So rest is never found in the quest to understand it all. No, rest is found in trusting the One who understands it all and rules it all for his glory and our good.

Paul David Tripp

#7. As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water.

Eric Newby

#8. I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.

John Stuart Mill

#9. I didn't know how I felt, except confused and bewildered, and very, very young. And the world all about us was wise, and old, so old.

V.C. Andrews

#10. Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.

Marge Piercy

#11. The greatest of all faults is to imagine you have none".

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#12. The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

John Zerzan