#he

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#lies #polite #telling #telling lies #telling the truth

If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream? ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#fate #predestination #prophecy #sorcery #dreams

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#free #higher #lower #machines #more

You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#goats #homes #just #liberals #sheep

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. ↗

— Les Brown

#dreams #help #help others #others #their

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#bear #children #could #death #east

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#her #homes #i #imagine #instead

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#cannot #help #important #living #our time

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#made #mistake #only #real #right

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#ghosts #his #into #introduces #knowledge