Quotes - Page 177 | Just Great DataBase

My life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!

I felt best when I was on the move, going someplace rather than being there.

There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

But who can remember pain, once it's over?

Every household needs one piece of furniture in really bad taste.

Dad kept telling me that he loved me, that he never would have let me drown, but you can’t cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is If you don’t want to sink, you better figure out how to swim.

They were afraid of dieing, but they were even more afraid to show it.

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

I resent violence or intolerance in any shape or form. It never reaches anything or stops anything. A revolution must come on the due installments plans. It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak a different vernacular, so to speak.

Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

Unpleasant to feel that people were discussing you

No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

Now my charms are all o'erthrown,And what strength I have's mine own, -Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,I must be here confined by you...But release me from my bandsWith the help of your good hands:Gentle breath of yours my sailsMust fill, or else my project fails,Which was to please: now I wantSpirits to enforce, art to enchant;And my ending is despair,Unless I be relieved by prayer,Which pierces so, that it assaultsMercy itself, and frees all faults.As you from crimes would pardon'd be,Let your indulgence set me free.

I would not wish Any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of.

Death was for-the other people.

This is no time for refusing to look facts in the face.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will... Yeah, that's true... But then again, if you don't imagine nothing ever happens at all.

You are a transitional generation, said Aunt Lydia. It is the hardest for you. We know the sacrifices you are being expected to make. It is hard when men revile you. For the ones who come after you, it will be easier. They will accept their duties with willing hearts.She did not say: Because they will have no memories, of any other way.She said: Because they won't want things they can't have.

Horror and doubt distractHis troubled thoughts and from the bottom stirThe Hell within him, for within him HellHe brings and round about him, nor from HellOne step no more than from himself can flyBy change of place.