Llewelyn Powys Quotes

#1. He [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.

Philip Larkin

#2. There are no miracles because all is a miracle. There is no magic because all is magic." -Llewelyn Powys

Rose Mary Boehm

#3. There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#4. That isn't the plural of moose. It's moosi.

Mikey Way

#5. He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault.

Barack Obama

#6. When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.

Mark Helprin

#7. When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

Taylor Swift

#8. I suck at golf and a variety of other things I go out and do with my friends.

Jimmie Johnson

#9. No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

Llewelyn Powys

#10. Once upon a time, there was a Magic Kingdom made of hopes and childhood fantasies. A timeless place where every land was filled with wonder. A place where everyone who entered its gates would be given the gift of the young at heart.

Julie Andrews

#11. Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

Llewelyn Powys

#12. A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

Llewelyn Powys

#13. Strange things happened to them ... some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that faith is refired forever.

John Steinbeck

#14. I never thought much about public displays of "Will you marry me?" It seems more like putting on a show for others rather than an intimate, private and special moment between two people.

Donna Lynn Hope

#15. When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.

Donald Hall

#16. In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

Aristotle.

#17. He who has no conviction always lies, no matter what he says.

Adolf Von Harnack

#18. Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

Publilius Syrus

#19. Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.

Megan Whalen Turner

#20. The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.

Llewelyn Powys

#21. I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

Heather King