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
- Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
- It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
- A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.
- All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- Coincidences are spiritual puns.
- 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.
- 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.
- Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
- A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Best Quotes
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
- All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
- When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
- I want to light the lights of patriotism.
- Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
- Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
- I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
- Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
- Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.