Darling Quotes - Page 9

• Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.

  Anne Rice

  Passion, People, Doe

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• Out of the darkness comes light like a flash
  You think you can, you think you can
  Sometimes that is the problem
  Dream little darling dream

  Dave Matthews

  Dream, Thinking, Light

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• Our Darling Eva We Love You

  Eva Gabor

  Love, Love You

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• The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But Cloe is my real flame. My softest verse, my darling lyre Upon Euphelia's toilet lay - When Cloe noted her desire That I should sing, that I should play. My lyre I tune, my voice I raise, But with my numbers mix my sighs; And whilst I sing Euphelia's praise, I fix my soul on Cloe's eyes. Fair Cloe blushed; Euphelia frowned: I sung, and gazed; I played, and trembled: And Venus to the Loves around Remarked how ill we all dissembled.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Real, Eye

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• Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Uplifting, Nature, Stars

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.78

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• Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Cute, Sweet

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• There's different kinds of love, darling. Some people you love no matter what, and others you love when the situation is right. To me, the best kind of love is no matter what kind.

  Kathy Baker

  Love, Dream, People

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• Goodnight, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.

  Noel Coward

  Dying, Tomorrow, Famous Last Words

  Noel Coward's last words, March 26, 1973.

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• Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Writing, Pieces, Crafts

  On the Art of Writing "On Style" (1916)

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• Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

  Alexander Pushkin

  Play, Wife, Letters

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• With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in fundamentals. Only those who prefer religious faith to beliefs based on reasoning and evidence can still maintain that the human species is the special darling of the entire universe, or that other animals were created to provide us with food, or that we have divine authority over them, and divine permission to kill them.

  Peter Singer

  Religious, Acceptance, Animal

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• I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Believe, Ninety Nine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.290, Library of Alexandria

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• By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness. The assiduous merchant, the laborious husbandman, the active mechanic, and the industrious manufacturer,-all orders of men, look forward with eager expectation and growing alacrity to this pleasing reward of their toils.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Men, Order

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.58, Coventry House Publishing

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• I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.

  Peter Mullan

  Hero, Kids, Potters

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• Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.

  John Muir

  Garden, Hiking, Yellowstone

  John Muir (2015). “THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring”, p.188, e-artnow

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• People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries.

  Julia Child

  Eye, Animal, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound.

  Heinrich Heine

  Spring, Eye, Azure

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.184

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• It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates much regarded, and the things of this present life are highly prized, as if the darling was of less value than a clod of earth; an immortal soul, than a perishing body; a precious Saviour, than unsatisfying creatures.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Men, Soul

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.4037, Delphi Classics

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• This woman [Lena Dunham] makes up being raped or something at Oberlin College and then she did commercials for Hillary [Clinton] so she's a darling, she ran that TV show at HBO. HBO's a left-wing enclave. It's worshiped. And so she benefits from that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, Hbo, Tv Shows

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Oh dear, is that a skunk?" Leonora asked. "No," Alessandro gasped in horror. "No the smelly cat!" "I've told you, Alessandro darling, they aren't cats." "They look like cats. Like the big fluffy cat she's been stepped on and flattened to a big fluffy pancake cat," Alessandro argued.

  Lynsay Sands

  Cat, Looks, Fluffy

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• - No, no... She shook her head for emphasis. No. His lips twitched. - One 'no' is enough, darling.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lips, Enough, Emphasis

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.31, Macmillan

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• The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors

  Julia Quinn

  Daughter, Ambitious, Mama

  Julia Quinn (2009). “The Viscount Who Loved Me”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.

  Stephen King

  Hurt, Light, Shining

  "The Shining". Book by Stephen King, 1977.

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• Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.

  Kate Morton

  Girl, Heart, Men

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.445, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• An eye for an eye.” “That's a revenge thing, right? From some play.” “The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.

  Nora Roberts

  Revenge, Eye, Play

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.31, Penguin

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