Dear Quotes - Page 31

• [T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Yesterday, New Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. 1848 - 1855”

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• The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, Mean, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.150, tredition

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• Sun of my soul, thou Savior dear, It is not night if thou be near. Oh, may no earthborn cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.

  John Keble

  Eye, Night, Clouds

  John Keble, “Sun Of My Soul”

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• Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.

  David Gell

  Warrior, Gun, Hands

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• O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy and possess you-persons, perhaps, less worthy of you than your old master. Yet how dear to me are they all! Have I not chosen them one by one, gathered them all in with the sweat of my brow? I do love you all!

  Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy

  Book, Love You, Reading

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• Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear,
  And he shows them pearly white.
  Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear,
  And he keeps them out of sight.

  Kurt Weill

  Song, Sight, Sharks

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• Any victory would be dear at such a price.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Victory, Would Be

  Robert E. Lee, Civil War Classics (2014). “Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee (Civil War Classics)”, p.122, Diversion Books

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• Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Loss, Sacrifice, Men

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• Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them and to do them honour simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I would commend the Jews. And if this is not enough, let him tell the Jews to use his mouth as a privy, or else crawl into the Jew's hind parts, and there worship the holy thing, so as afterwards to be able to boast of having been merciful, and of having helped the Devil and his progeny to blaspheme our dear Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Worst Enemy, Order, Dear Lord

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• Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Silence, Rudeness

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.45, Pottermore

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• All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right

  Bill Cosby

  Running, Men, Use

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• If you truthfully can say without a doubt within your heart Dear Lord, Thy will be done, and God knows best!

  John McLeod

  God, Heart, Dear Lord

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• Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Regret, Long, Able

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.33

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• After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him."

  Arturo Toscanini

  Music, Men, Long

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• 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

  John Suckling

  Blessing, Expectations, Anticipation

  1646 'Against Fruition'.

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• I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.

  Teresa of Avila

  Perfect, Desire, Beloved

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• The most tragic moment of my life was the first show I ever designed for. I had been asked to make shoes for Ossie Clark's show in the early '70s. I was so inexperienced that I didn't put the steel in the heels of the shoes, which is required to support the shoe and the wearer. So the girls came out walking very strangely in these rubber, bendy high-heeled shoes I had made. I thought 'Oh dear god! This is the end of me.' But after the show, even David Hockney and Cecil Beaton said to me 'It was so interesting that the girls were moving in such a different way.'

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Moving, Shoes

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• My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Jobs, Munich, Dear God

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

  Chanakya

  Children, Desire, Poison

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• I feel like somebody who just got out of prison after 40 years for something she didn't do, like I got pardoned by the governor. When dear friends deal with me with mixed emotions, it is a little like being told, 'Well, Jenny, we're glad you got sprung, really, but quite honestly we did kind of like you better when you were in jail.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Years, Jail, Littles

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• Above all, there was Almah. Everything combined to make her most dear to me. My life has been such that I never before had seen anyone whome I loved; and here Almah was the one congenial and sympathetic, and I loved her dearly, even before I understood what my feelings were. One day I learned all, and found that she was more precious to me than all the world.

  James De Mille

  Feelings, One Day, World

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• George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

  Gary Wright

  Life, Home, Unique

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• The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

  Adolf Loos

  Cities, Wish, Vienna

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• Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.

  John Henry Newman

  Love Is, Dear Lord, Shining

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• Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, School, Long

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