Top 41 William Nicholson Quotes
#1. Well, this is it ... I choose you ... Come what may, you are what I choose.
Ann Brashares
#2. There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
William Nicholson
#3. When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
Colette
#4. God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
William Nicholson
#5. Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing ...
May Sarton
#7. He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.
William Nicholson
#8. If you die, I'll die.' 'But is you live, I'll live.' - Bowman and Kestrel, Firesong
William Nicholson
#10. It has long been said that the three hardest words to say in the English language are I love you. We heartily disagree! For most people, it is much harder to say I don't know.
Steven D. Levitt
#11. Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.
Janelle Monae
#12. We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep. When you rise, I will rise. I will pass my days within the sound of your voice, and my nights within the reach of your hand. And none shall come between us. - Manth Vow
William Nicholson
#16. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.
William Nicholson
#17. Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.
G. Campbell Morgan
#19. When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
William Nicholson
#20. Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.
Marcus Garvey
#21. Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
William Nicholson
#22. It is better," says Eckhard, "to look at the wall. You look at the wall, you have your own thoughts. You look at he TV, you have the thoughts of the state.
William Nicholson
#23. If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.
Henry Moore
#24. I don't want to understand you,' I say tiredly. 'I wish you would not speak at all.
Sarah Waters
#25. I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.
William Nicholson
#26. Life's gonna kick you in the butt.
That's what it does.
But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn't in life? (Kira, The Mishmorat)
Richelle E. Goodrich
#27. To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.
William Nicholson
#29. Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?
William Nicholson
#31. A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
William Nicholson
#32. There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.
Alexandra Monir
#33. She could end up on the news if she wasn't careful, with her face plastered on the back of milk jugs. Missing and too stupid to live.
Missy Lyons
#35. The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.
William Nicholson
#36. My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.
William Nicholson
#37. There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
William Nicholson
#38. No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.
Alexander MacLaren
#39. I have no future,' said Hanno. 'I need no prophecy. You talk too much, woman.
William Nicholson
#40. Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.
Charles Frazier
#41. The sun isow behind the grey-green trees. And all the farm grows quiet by degrees. Among their many lessons this is best: the animals know when and how to rest!
William Nicholson
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