The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Quote by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
- I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
- All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
- Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
- Coincidences are spiritual puns.
Best Quotes
- An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
- The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.
- The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
- Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
- I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
- There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
- He is a hard man who is only just and a sad one who is only wise.
- Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
- It requires more courage to suffer than to die.