Magic Quotes - Page 25

• But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

  Rick Riordan

  Knives, Evil, Tools

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• Piper leaned toward [Jason], her caramel braid falling over her shoulder. Her multicolored eyes made it hard for him to think straight. “And where is this place?” she asked. “A . . . uh, a town called Split.” “Split.” She smelled really good—like blooming honeysuckle. “Um, yeah.” Jason wondered if Piper was working some sort of Aphrodite magic on him—like maybe every time he mentioned Reyna’s name, she would befuddle him so much he couldn’t think about anything but Piper. He supposed it wasn’t the worst sort of revenge.

  Rick Riordan

  Revenge, Fall, Eye

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• Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together. “Hi,” he says. “I’m Daniel.” “Hi,” I reply. “I’m June.

  Marie Lu

  Eye, June, Hands

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.230, Penguin

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• Which is what one always hopes will happen: for life to take over and be bigger and more marvelous than what we can dream up on our own. Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Hurt, Needs

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn’t hurt.)

  Laini Taylor

  Hurt, Needs, Littles

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• …Something isn’t right with you and this property. Strange things happen around it. I don’t know what is going on, but I will find out. You could make it easier on yourself by coming clean.” “Sure. This is a magic bed-and-breakfast and the two guys in my kitchen are aliens from outerspace.

  Ilona Andrews

  Two, Guy, Kitchen

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• The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

  William Carey Jones

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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• Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Eye, Home

  Charles Dickens (2003). “A Christmas Carol”, p.182, Broadview Press

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• Selfishness makes Christmas a burden;
  Love makes it a delight.
  The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.

  William Carey Jones

  Christmas, Children, Heart

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• To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Opportunity, Special

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.

  Benjamin Harkarvy

  Dance, Ballet, Add

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• Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.

  Julius Nyerere

  Freedom, Mean, Rhinos

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• When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe. Some day they might want to use it, but really, for now, what more could they wish for? They all had all that they wanted.

  William Steig

  Happiness, Home, Iron

  William Steig (1969). “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble”

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• We all been playing those mind games forever, Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil, Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it magic the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure, Love is a flower you got to let it grow...

  John Lennon

  Life, Flower, Love Is

  "Song: Mind Games". October 29, 1973.

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• For mightier far
  Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
  Of magic potent over sun and star,
  Is love, though oft to agony distrest,
  And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Life, Stars

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.210, Wordsworth Editions

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• Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

  J. K. Rowling

  Music, Eye, Bedtime

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• War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

  Lewis Mumford

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Light, Sky

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.100, Lulu Press, Inc

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• During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Prayer, Mean

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice of sheer courage. The latter is difficult, and to everybody becomes impossible at a certain point. The former has therefore always been more popular. Primitive magic has the purpose of securing safety, either by injuring enemies, or by protecting oneself by talismans, spells, or incantations.

  Bertrand Russell

  Practice, Two, Safety

  Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

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• This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Thinking, Magic In The World

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Travel, Going Away, Lenses

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.357, e-artnow

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• When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Dance, Heart, Dancing

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• Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the semi-consciousness. This is called the deceptive and magic-like Bardo of Dream.

  Milarepa

  Dream, Yoga, Night

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• Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit.

  Ted Andrews

  Dance, Powerful, Expression

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