Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?
Ken Follett
Proportion is the heart of beauty.
beauty art heart
Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if he tried to make it do something it did not want to do, it would fight him, and his chisel would slip, or dig in too deeply, spoiling the shapes. But once he had got to know the lump of rock in front of him he could transform it. The more difficult the task, the more fascinated he was. He was beginning to feel that the decorative carving demanded by Tom was too easy. Zigzags, lozenges, dogtooth, spirals and plain roll moldings bored him, and even these leaves were rather stiff and repetitive. He wanted to curve natural-looking foliage, pliable and irregular, and copy the different shapes of real leaves, oak and ash and birch.
challenge work art real artist feel beginning fight hard difficult hear rock easy ash jack
Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.
faith
Everything in Tom's cathedral looked as if it was meant to be. Perhaps her life was like that, everything foreordained in a grand design, and she was like a foolish builder who wanted a waterfall in the chancel.
fate
Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.
fear
Why do you have to be the same as the others?.. Most of them are stupid.
human-nature followers sheep
When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.
pride humility
.. You should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.
work
¡Un juramento sólo son palabras! No es nada en comparación con esto. Esto es real, esto somos tú y yo.
amor
He was looking forward eagerly to seeing her again. He had coped perfectly well on his own, of course, but it was very reassuring to have someone in your life who was always ready to fight for you, and he had missed that comforting feeling.
mothers
Hunger is the best seasoning.
hunger
What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
funny humor husband
trouble
I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.
people
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
war
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