A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.
Quote by G. K. Chesterton
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A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.
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G. K. Chesterton Quotes
- You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution
- Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
- The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
- The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
- The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
- The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
- The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.