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“Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.”

Wells May Mean Made Lasts Simple Behinds Quality Tools Leaving Expensive Buying Now And Then More Money Junk Simple Living Repetitive Discounts Living More

Author:Doris Janzen Longacre

“Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.”

May Care Behinds Wall Listening Take Care

Book:Gulistan or Rose Garden

Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden

“There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.”

May Universe Evil Behinds Permanent Fallacy Hunted

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“If but one message, I may leave behind, One single word of courage for my kind, It would be this Oh, brother, sister, friend, Whatever life may bring what God may send, No matter whether clouds life soon or late-- Take heart and wait!”

Ifs Heart Kind May Matter Would Be Waiting Behinds Brother Late Messages Patience Clouds Single Word Brother Sister Words Of Courage Sister Friend

Author:Grace Noll Crowell

“A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.”

May Moments Light Happens Behinds Doors Effects Pure Longing Accidents Weather Dust Relish Barns Windmills Trivial Things

Book:The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry

Source: The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry

“We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.”

Knows Trying May Stills Science Space Behinds Knowledge Fronts Position Higher Scales Wander Uncharted

Book:The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.”

Ifs Life May Persons Facts Seems Behinds Truth Is Ugly Vanity Meaning Of Life Sentimental

Book:Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

Source: Conversations with Eugene O'Neill

“He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain!”

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 60: Sermons 3387-3439

“My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.”

Source: Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year

“What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence.”

Want May Ideas Facts Shows Reality Form Sound Behinds Existence Mystery Seeking Invisible Bridges Visible Paradoxical

Author:Max Beckmann

“When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.”

May Play Able Moving Powerful Behinds Clear Plans Masters Late Logic Chess Make Sense Opponents Too Late Playing Chess Fischer

Author:Mark Taimanov

“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nautre's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.”

Way May Eye Care Behinds Happened Sea Minutes Scene Mountain Devil My Friends Wings Tranquility Eagles Summit Tents

Book:Last Places: A Journey in the North

Source: Last Places: A Journey in the North

“A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.”

May Long Seems Dies Left Behinds Comfort Disease Life And Death Left Behind Between Life And Death

Author:Jean de la Bruyere