The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
AGATHA CHRISTIEYou don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
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What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.
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There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
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When the fact doesn’t meet the theory then let go the theory.
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You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.
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Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.
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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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Assumptions are dangerous things.
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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
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