The features of character are carved out of adversity.
You must be clever, Tracey to do these forgeries.""She's not clever. I did them," yelled Frieda."You'll get five years.""She did them."From Halfpennies and Blue Vinyl
(n.) The written history of a person's life.
(n.) Biographical writings in general.
To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love th...
144461I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection. We want to be noticed, we want to be good enough, we want friends, and we want to be loved. We wan...
I was born in the house my father built.
Mechanically I carried on across the Irish Sea, noticing with a jaundiced eye that it had suddenly lost the sinister threat of no-man's-land and was transformed into a placid highway where ferry-steam...
A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.
The creative person should have no other biography than his works.
Biography is the only true history.
Give me a fucking pre-med you fuckers, I'm a personal friend of Sir Lancelot Spratt.
One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
Whatever you believe, and however, each of us deals with these events in our lives, one thing is for certain the truism, time is a great healer, is of no consolation at that moment of intense, all-con...
I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.
Kill the body and the head will die.
He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit. We also need...
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