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
- You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
- We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
- 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.
- The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
- The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
- People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
- Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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.