Chapters Quotes - Page 4

• But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

  Edith Wharton

  Archer, Sacrifice, Long

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• A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

  Victor Hugo

  Girl, Children, Unhappy

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• I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth, I discovered I was three pages from the next chapter. Might as well end with a clean break. After I was done, I sighed and leaned back, feeling decadent and spent. Pure bliss. Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

  Richelle Mead

  Couple, Book, Feelings

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.134, Zebra Books

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• Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me." -All Quiet On The Western Front, Chapter 12

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Eye, Hands, Years

  Title of translation of his novel Im Westen nichts Neues (Nothing New in the West, 1929). Cf. the title of a poem by Ethel L. Beers: All Quiet along the Potomac (1861)

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• The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. —chapter 8

  Sinclair Lewis

  Girl, Witty, Kissing

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• Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Girl, Book, Toss

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• Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Years, Persons

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• Chapter 8, Dinner With the Vampire: Is there something wrong with your food?" No, I'm just not very hungry." You're going to break my heart, aren't you?

  Christopher Moore

  Heart, Vampire, Dinner

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd like to give every young teacher some good news. Teaching is a very easy job. Administrators will tell you what to do. You'll be given books and told chapters to assign the children. Veteran teachers will show you the correct way to fill out forms and have your classes line up.And here's some more good news. If you do all of these things badly, they let you keep doing it. You can go home at three o'clock every day. You get about three months off a year. Teaching is a great gig.However, if you care about what you're doing, it's one of the toughest jobs around.

  Rafe Esquith

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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• St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Second Chance, Community

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• A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'

  David Mumford

  Children, Hate, School

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• In the chapter on study we considered the importance of observing ourselves to see how often our speech is a frantic attempt to explain and justify our actions. Having seen this in ourselves, let's experiment with doing deeds without any words of explanation whatever. We note our sense of fear that people will misunderstand why we have done what we have done. We seek to allow God to be our justifier.

  Richard J. Foster

  People, Done, Deeds

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals.

  John Lewis Gaddis

  Past, Perspective, Historical

  John Lewis Gaddis (2004). “The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Writing, Interesting

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• In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

  Poppy Z. Brite

  America, Netherlands, Firsts

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• Many people look upon change with dread and foreboding. But for those on the spiritual path-for those who believe in God and the power of prayer-change is a fuller expression of life. When a problem or condition arises in your life that indicates a change, rely upon God, and realize that it is not so much that a door has closed on a chapter of your life, but rather that a door has opened on new and more interesting things.

  Emmet Fox

  Change, Spiritual, Prayer

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• I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

  Colleen Hoover

  Life, Ideas, Needs

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. When you experience the end of one chapter, allow yourself to feel the emotions of loss and rebirth. A bud gives way to a new flower, which surrenders to the fruit, which gives rise to a seed, which yields a new sprout. Even as you ride the roller coaster, embrace the centered internal reference of the ever-present witness.

  David Simon

  Flower, Loss, Yield

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• Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

  Dr. Seuss

  Children, Writing, Murder

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• Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

  Marianne Williamson

  Book, Levels, Life Is

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• It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism.

  George Orwell

  War, Ignorance, Fighting

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• Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never be the sum of one circumstance. It would be determined, as it had always been, by my willingness to put one foot in front of the other, moving forward, come what may.

  LIZ

  Moving, Feet, Would Be

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• Trump Entertainment Resorts declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Or as Donald Trump describes Chapter 11, "Back-to-back number ones!"

  Conan O'Brien

  Numbers, Entertainment, Trump

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• Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

  Herman Melville

  Branches, Twigs, Trunks

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.275

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• With the right person in place, a very distressing chapter in the Justice Department's history can be closed and the process of restoring its credibility as a strong and independent department can begin.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Strong, Independent, Justice

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