Ever After Quotes - Page 9

• When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Battle, Resistance

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.37

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• You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

  Richard Baxter

  Doors, Devil, Done

  Richard Baxter (1815). “The poor man's best companion: in plain and familiar dialogues. With forms of prayer for various uses ... By the Rev. Richard Baxter”, p.221

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• Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us to be our own true selves. The handicap's too great. All those months, when the same blood's running through two sets of veins - there's no getting away from that, ever after. Take yours. As I say, does she need to open her mouth? Not she! She's only got to let it hang at the corners, and you reek, you drip with guilt.

  Henry Handel Richardson

  Mother, Running, Mean

  Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1934). “The End of a Childhood”

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• Happily ever after doesn't come easy. But for love, it's always worth the fight.

  M. Leighton

  Fighting, Happily Ever After, Easy

  "Up to Me (The Bad Boys)". Book by M. Leighton, January 2013.

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• Cinderella and the prince
  lived, they say, happily ever after,
  like two dolls in a museum case
  never bothered by diapers or dust,
  never arguing over the timing of an egg,
  never telling the same story twice.

  Anne Sexton

  Happiness, Marriage, Museums

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a bumpy road filled with potholes...and detours. Sometimes we even veer off into the ditch. But the places that road will take you, the things you'll experience, are worth all of the uncertainty.

  Melissa Brown

  Book, Perfect, Bumpy Roads

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• It is known (to some) that by dwelling in the present, conceding what is necessary to past and future, but no more than is necessary, it is quite possible to live happily ever after

  Edgar Pangborn

  Past, Dwelling, Known

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• Fragrance for me is never after or only, it's everything. I am a fragrance connoisseur.

  Erin Heatherton

  Fragrance, Connoisseur

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people.'

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Jargon, Firsts

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.66, Routledge

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• [In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.

  Alistair Cooke

  Horse, Gun, Land

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• How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Two, People, Ends

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. We all get cranky, or impatient, or worried, or careless enough to do or say things that hurt someone else. Like it or not, that's normal. We can't blame it all on Olympia's bad energy. The important part is that we feel sorry about what we've done and make up for it. That's something Olympia never did.

  Jean Ferris

  Hurt, Sorry, Believe

  Jean Ferris (2009). “Twice Upon a Marigold”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.
  Charlie: What happened?
  Wonka: He lived happily ever after.

  Roald Dahl

  Men, Buckets, Forget

  "Fictional characters: Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket". "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", 1971.

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• I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Cutting, Thinking, Hair

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• You mean they killed her?" asked David. They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge. That's what 'ran away and was never seen again' means in these parts. It means 'eaten.'" Um and what about 'happily ever after'?" asked David, a little uncertainly. "What does that mean?" Eaten quickly," said Brother Number One.

  John Connolly

  Brother, Mean, Numbers

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever. The ever after, what precisely was that? Your dreams, your life, your death, your everything. Was it the blank space that went on without us? The forever after we were gone?

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, Mean, Space

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• She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Book

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 27, 2014

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• Her elf is going to do just that,” he said, the red glow of the ever-after sun turning his hair auburn, almost as red as mine. “I did not work this hard at getting her to accept who she is to let you take your spoiled brat of a little-boy temper tantrum out on her. She stays on my side of the lines.

  Kim Harrison

  Boys, Hair, Auburn

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• Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Lying, Hero, Years

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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• Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?

  Rick Riordan

  Sunset, Feelings, Doe

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• The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease-unless we make a new crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines.

  William Walker Atkinson

  Law Of Attraction, Mind, Pieces

  William Walker Atkinson (2016). “THE POWER OF MIND - 17 Books Collection: The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, The Power of Concentration, The Inner Consciousness…: Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion + Memory: How to Develop, Train, and Use It, Practical Mental Influence + The Subconscious and the Superconscious Planes of Mind + Self-Healing by Thought Force…”, p.782, e-artnow

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• Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Believe, Buddhism

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• I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Knowing, Forever, Zorro

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• Old is man when he is born and young, young ever after.

  Taliesin

  Men, Born, Young

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• The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a tale and deep as emotion. So strong, it can lift the spirit. So gentle, it can touch the heart. It is the magic that begins the happily ever after.

  Walt Disney

  Strong, Laughter, Heart

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