Felix Salten Quotes

#1. Everything you say,' Geno said rather irritably, 'contradicts itself.'
'Of course it does,' the screech owl rejoined obscurely. 'Otherwise, how would anyone ever keep to the middle of the road?

Felix Salten

#2. I understand now that a Trojan of literary achievement writes out of passion, out of necessity.

Merce Cardus

#3. The most dreadful part of all," the old stag answered, "is that the dogs believe what the hound just said. They believe it, they pass their lives in fear, they hate Him and themselves and yet they'd die for His sake.

Felix Salten

#4. The sky was clear
remarkably clear
and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

Thomas Hardy

#5. Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite.

Stephen Charnock

#6. Marena looked at all of them out of her big, calm, shining eyes. "Love is no nonsense," she said. "It has to come.

Felix Salten

#7. Marena," he said with an effort, "Marena ... " He did not recognize her. His voice failed.

Felix Salten

#8. Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

Oscar Wilde

#9. I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#10. Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?"
"Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking
mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.

Louisa May Alcott

#11. If our prayer is "Dear God, please use me to be of service," then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God's love.

Marianne Williamson

#12. Waste is any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value. - James P. Womak and Daniel T. Jones,

Ash Maurya

#13. Bambi was inspired, and said trembling, There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him.

Felix Salten

#14. How can you waste time? You have only so much to use, and no matter what you do, it still passes.

Felix Salten

#15. The young doe, Marena, said, In this very hour many of us are going to die. Perhaps I shall be one of them.

Felix Salten

#16. I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.

B.B. King

#17. Aren't you afraid of death, oak? How can you speak so casually about it?'
The trees creaked their bare branches until it seemed to Geno that they must be laughing.
'Death?' they said. 'How is it death to return to earth again? Our seed can grow from us. We shall return.

Felix Salten

#18. If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

Jim Croce

#19. He did not feel the ground under his feet - he thrust himself into the capriole, rose high in the air-forelegs and hind legs horizontal. He soared above the ground, he head in jubilation. Conquering!

Felix Salten

#20. You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else.

Felix Salten

#21. I'm just beginning to understand how kind you are.

Felix Salten

#22. The loss of her parents was an echo now. She hadn't stopped missing them and figured she never would. It was just that it was no longer a pain she ran from, but a lesson in how love morphs with loss and what you remember of those you loved.

J.H. Croix