Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.
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