Fillip Quotes

#1. The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred. - Author: Samuel Beckett

#2. You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart. - Author: Carl White

#3. When someone who badly needs something finds it, it isn't an accident that brings it his way, but he himself, his own desire and necessity lead him to it. - Author: Hermann Hesse

#4. It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing a lot by being like this - fear gives life a fillip. He wonders how it is he lost it all, and what there is - if anything - ever to bring it back. ("Jane Brown's Body") - Author: Cornell Woolrich

#5. Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start. - Author: Shana Alexander

#6. When you are faced with deficiencies instead of strengths and inclinations, this is the strategy you must assume: ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others. - Author: Robert Greene

#7. I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God. - Author: Blaise Pascal

#8. He had no idea who bought his books, how they acquired the money to buy them. Perhaps they were saints, perhaps they were criminals ... - Author: Adam Langer

#9. I swore I'd never fall for her again. - Author: Kelly Moran