“My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.” ThinkingYearsWellsLooksEndsNextGoalTalkingAchieveSeriousDadCrossesMy DadNext Year Author:Miranda Leek
“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.” IfsShouldFirstsHas BeensEndsStoriesUsedLyingMy OwnWrittenSubjectsWallGunConcernedCrossesChaptersHanging On Author:Anton Chekhov
“The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.” IfsEndsWholeFactsLastsScienceStepsJourneyHard WorkIntellectualResearchCrossesWorkersVainAccomplishmentAccomplishedHopelessIndustrious Author:Max Planck
“Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?” EndsStrongTearsCrossesOvercomingConvictionPossessionVery StrongDiligence Book:Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume Source: Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume
“The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.” EndsChristianTogetherFeetCrosses Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments more capable of spoiling everything than of making it succeed.” IfsGivingEndsCommunitySucceedCapableGloryCrossesGive MeInstrumentsAccomplishTrialsNothingnessEmployedIncapacity Author:Theodore Guerin