Agatha Christie
"I remember one teacher there -- I can't recall her name now. She was short and spare, and I remember her eager jutting chin. Quite unexpectedly one day (in the middle, I think, of an arithmetic lesson) she suddenly launched forth on a speech on life and religion. "All of you," she said, "every one of you -- will pass through a time when you will face despair. If you never face despair, you will never have faced, or become, a Christian, or known a Christian life. To be a Christian you must face and accept the life that Christ faced and lived; you must enjoy things as he enjoyed things; be as happy as he was at the marriage at Canaan, know the peace and happiness that it means to be in harmony with God and with God's will. But you must also know, as he did, what it means to be alone in the Garden of Gethsemane, to feel that all your friends have forsaken you, that those you love and trust have turned away from you, and that God Himself has forsaken you. Hold on then to the belief that that is not the end. If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life." She then returned to the problems of compound interest ..."
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"I remember one teacher there -- I can't recall her name now. She was short and spare, and I remember her eager jutting chin. Quite unexpectedly one day (in the middle, I think, of an arithmetic lesson) she suddenly launched forth on a speech on life and religion. "All of you," she said, "every one of you -- will pass through a time when you will face despair. If you never face despair, you will never have faced, or become, a Christian, or known a Christian life. To be a Christian you must face and accept the life that Christ faced and lived; you must enjoy things as he enjoyed things; be as happy as he was at the marriage at Canaan, know the peace and happiness that it means to be in harmony with God and with God's will. But you must also know, as he did, what it means to be alone in the Garden of Gethsemane, to feel that all your friends have forsaken you, that those you love and trust have turned away from you, and that God Himself has forsaken you. Hold on then to the belief that that is not the end. If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life." She then returned to the problems of compound interest ..."
Agatha Christie
"Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken"
Agatha Christie
"One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---but there's no one who knew me as a young girl---non one who belongs to the old days. I've been alone for quite a long time now."
Agatha Christie
"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood."
Agatha Christie
"Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price."
Agatha Christie
"One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women."
Agatha Christie
"Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.β-Caroline to Ursual."
Agatha Christie
"Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric."
Agatha Christie
"Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's always very pleasant and all that, but one never seems to get to know her better.'Miss Marple agreed thoughtfully. 'One never knows what she is thinking.''Perhaps that is just as well.''I beg your pardon''Oh nothing really, only that I've always had the feeling that perhaps her thoughts might be rather disconcerting."
Agatha Christie
"My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains."
Agatha Christie
"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her."
Agatha Christie
"You would hate people if you were like meβ¦ If you werenβt wanted."
Agatha Christie
"Un archeologo Γ¨ il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: piΓΉ lei diventa vecchia, piΓΉ lui s'interessa a lei."
Agatha Christie
"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."
Agatha Christie
"We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, βWhatβs the good of doing anything?β Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age."
Agatha Christie
"If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off."
Agatha Christie
"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."
Agatha Christie
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