It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.
("The Power of One")
More Quotes from Bryce Courtenay:
Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.Bryce Courtenay
I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.
Bryce Courtenay
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost.
Bryce Courtenay
Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.
Bryce Courtenay
I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfalls in the night country.
Bryce Courtenay
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been
Bryce Courtenay
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Business & Commerce Quotes, Night Quotes, Sin QuotesBased on Keywords: pestering
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis Stevenson
But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
Jack Nance
I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order.
Tom McClintock