Thomas Shadwell Quotes

#1. The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Thomas Shadwell

#2. When a person gives you a book to read, he's asking you to look into his soul.

Suzanne Morrison

#3. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

Bruce Schneier

#4. No man is happy but by comparison.

Thomas Shadwell

#5. Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence.

Mark Batterson

#6. I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

Thomas Shadwell

#7. I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Yunjin Kim

#8. And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Thomas Shadwell

#9. Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Thomas Shadwell

#10. Every man loves what he is good at.

Thomas Shadwell

#11. It seemed altogether right to him that they would drive through the small village of Paradise. It would be hard to find someone less demanding of life than Brown Dog and his current position was beyond his most strenuous ambitions.

Jim Harrison

#12. Hope is a very thin diet.

Thomas Shadwell

#13. We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#14. There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.

Fred Allen

#15. All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

Umberto Eco

#16. If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

Hermann Hesse

#17. We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without a radical change in heart, in mind, in vision, the earth will end up like Venus, charred and dead.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#18. The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [ ... ] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.

Ray Bradbury

#19. The sacred souls are saved by grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita