Fray Quotes - Page 3

• Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

  Richard Hovey

  Failure, Fighting, Glory

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• I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.

  Cassandra Clare

  Whether God Exists, Lost Souls, Knows

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2282, Simon and Schuster

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• In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

  Rupert Everett

  War, Army, Thinking

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• The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

  Bono

  Artist, Rolling, Albums

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• This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

  John Podhoretz

  Presidential, Thrones, Goes On

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• I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

  Cassandra Clare

  Class, Beginners, Pages

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at." "Meaning you?" "What else?

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Nice, Ego

  Cassandra Clare (2017). “City of Bones: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

  Hermann Hesse

  Travel, Trousers

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fighting, People, Pugs

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

  William Shakespeare

  Holy, Devilish

  William Shakespeare (1962). “A Midsummer Night's Dream (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.35, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  House, Tree, Retreat

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.548, Simon and Schuster

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• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  Gary Johnson

  Real, Party, Two

  "This isn't the year for ideological purity. Don't vote for Jill Stein" by Jill Abramson, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2016.

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• I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.

  Renee Fleming

  Classic, Certain

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• Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

  Walter Scott

  Men, Play, Credit

  Sir Walter Scott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)”, p.2174, Delphi Classics

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• She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.

  Cassandra Clare

  War, Cutting, Imperfection

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace

  Cassandra Clare

  Stuff, Fallen Angels, Jace

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• If the lot of you survives, Curran will fray the skin off your backs,' Doolittle said. 'That's what I always love about you, Doctor.' Raphael grinned. 'You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine.

  Ilona Andrews

  Flower, Sunshine, Doctors

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• But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Matter, Turns

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1513, Simon and Schuster

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• The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of what he and Alexia might do together once he got her home in a properly wedded state, but now those lusty images were mixing with others: waking up next to her, seeing her across the dining table, discussing science and politics, having her advice on points of pack controversy and BUR difficulties. No doubt she would be useful in verbal frays and social machinations, as long as she was on his side.

  Gail Carriger

  Home, Ideas, Long

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• He wants her in his bedroom. And not in that way — no girl has ever been in his bedroom that way. It is his private space, his sanctuary. But he wants Clary there. He wants her to see him, the reality of him, not the image he shows the world. He wants to lie down on the bed with her and have her curl into him. He wants to hold her as she breathes softly through the night; to see her as no one else sees her: vulnerable and asleep. To see her and to be seen.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Lying, Night

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• You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked. She shook her head. He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart," he told her, and left.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Heart, Want

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• You never cared that I was your sister before.” “Didn’t I?” His black eyes flicked up and down her. “Our father’s dead,” he said. “There are no other relatives. You and I, we are the last. The last of the Morgensterns. You are the only one left whose blood runs in my veins, too. You are my last chance.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Father, Eye

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• There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —

  Cassandra Clare

  Honesty, Attitude, Lying

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• Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self." "Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before. "Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out.

  Cassandra Clare

  Teenager, Moving, Doors

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Controversy, Objects

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