Westerlies Facts Quotes

#1. The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.

William Hazlitt

#2. I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I'm glad I did. The book is a lot better without it.

Donald Miller

#3. So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.

Moshe Sharett

#4. Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. Our hearts are raging idol factories.

Stephen Altrogge

#6. He continued, slowly, by a process of osmosis and white knowledge (which is like white noise, only more useful), to comprehend the city, a process that accelerated when he realized that the actual City of London itself was no bigger than a square mile.

Aldous Huxley

#7. Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.

Marcel Proust

#8. Adultery and cruelty have well-marked courses of action but what can a man do when his wife wants to appear naked on the stage?

John Cheever