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.

Samuel Beckett

#2. 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")

Cornell Woolrich

#3. 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.

Shana Alexander

#4. 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.

Blaise Pascal

#5. You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.

Carl White

#6. 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.

Hermann Hesse

#7. 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.

Robert Greene

#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 ...

Adam Langer

#9. I swore I'd never fall for her again.

Kelly Moran