Quotes – Page 78 | Just Great DataBase

They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.

For you, in my respect, are all the world.Then how can it be said I am aloneWhen all the world is here to look on me?

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clayTo mould me man? Did I solicit theeFrom darkness to promote me?

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what’s said and what’s done.

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

One and one and one and one doesn’t equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other.

The time has comeThe walrus saidTo talk of many things:Of shoes- and ships-And sealing wax-Of cabbages and kings-And why the sae is boiling hot-And whether pigs have wings.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

Everything in life has its price.