Thenceforward Quotes

#1. An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

#2. Any ordinary man can ... surround himself with two thousand books ... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

#3. Though it may take much suffering to kill the able-bodied and effective members of society, it does not take much to reduce them to worn, listless, diseased creatures, who thenceforward crawl through life with moody hearts and pain-stricken bodies.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#4. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage.
The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

Arthur Ransome

#5. Seven characters are too many for a ten-minute play. It'll be twenty minutes long! Fuck it. One of them is dead and the others can all talk fast.

Tony Kushner

#6. People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.

Joe Cocker

#7. Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

Rene Descartes

#8. I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

Bill Cosby

#9. To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Rabindranath Tagore

#10. We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

Orville Dewey

#11. The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

#12. Everyday she loses a bit more of herself , every day another nail in her coffin house payments medical bills and middle aged isolation

Saira Viola

#13. I don't actually go on the Internet that much.

Jennifer Coolidge

#14. Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation ... are looking for someone to listen to their problems and help them communicate.

Jimmy Carter

#15. Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.

Russell Brand

#16. The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

Peter Ackroyd

#17. Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.

Brian Tracy

#18. I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.

Henry Wessel Jr.