I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
More Quotes from Walter Bagehot:
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.Walter Bagehot
The essence of work is concentrated energy.
Walter Bagehot
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Walter Bagehot
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
Walter Bagehot
The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -
Walter Bagehot
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Walter Bagehot
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Driving QuotesBased on Keywords: newer
Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.
Jennifer Lawrence
The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.
George Vancouver
Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
Jerry Gillies