May Quotes - Page 17

• A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

  E. Lockhart

  Ambition, Tomatoes, Fruit

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.61, Hot Key Books

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• Hazael rose from his knees. It had to take extraordinary effort, yet somehow he managed a version of his lazy smile when he said, "You know, I've always wanted to be a bath attendant. You should take me instead. I'm nicer than my sister." Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better." "I'm afraid I must deny her the pleasure. I've been kissed by swords before, you see." "I may have noticed.

  Laini Taylor

  Rose, Effort, Waiting

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• What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Confused, Innovation, Too Late

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• There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

  Amish Tripathi

  Reality, Opposites, Perception

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• It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• I may not have any skeletons in my closet, but I do have a little box of souls in my sock drawer. —T-SHIRT

  Darynda Jones

  Skeletons, Soul, Littles

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.69, Macmillan

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• Women may fail when there is no strength in man

  William Shakespeare

  Sex, Men, Failing

  William Shakespeare (1772). “The Works of Shakespeare: in Twelve Volumes: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.288

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• Never trust a duck" - Will Herondale "We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever." - Will Herondale

  Cassandra Clare

  Ducks, Forever, Generations

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• So help me God,” I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. “If you go back on your word, I will tear you apart. And I won’t stop, not ever, until I’ve destroyed your life and the lives of every single person in this organization. Believe me, you may not always keep your promises, but I do.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Believe, Organization, Promise

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• Ati sarvatra varjayet: Excess of anything is bad. Some of us are attracted to Good. But the universe tries to maintain balance. So what is good for some may end up being bad for others... Agriculture is good for us humans as it gives us an assured supply of food, but it is bad for the animals that lose their forest and grazing land.

  Amish Tripathi

  Animal, Land, Agriculture

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• Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive sort, then you're more apt than the average person to feel pleasantly overwhelmed by Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" or a well-turned phrase or an act of extraordinary kindness. You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience.

  Susan Cain

  Strong, Kindness, Average

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

  Rick Yancey

  Native American, Thinking, Silence

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.36, Penguin

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• we compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Careers, Goal

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.17, Knopf

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• Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Teacher, Wince, Audience

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.

  Veronica Roth

  Differences, Way, Huge

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• Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does nothing to solve the grave realities of the federal government's insatiable appetite for spending and its inability to reform itself.

  Mark Levin

  Reality, Government, Class

  Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Rocks, Problem

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.

  Naoki Higashida

  Stress, Grief, Ideas

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• I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.

  Brené Brown

  Emotional, Thinking, Safety

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.37, Penguin

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• You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Book, Sight

  Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.11, Penguin

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• Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Opportunity, Remember, Criticize

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• All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Son, Empty Life

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• There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a faint aroma of their presence remains, a presence that haunts us until we make our peace with them and let them go. The problem, however, is that we tend to spend a great deal of energy in attempting to avoid the truth. We construct an image of ourselves that seeks to shield us from a confrontation with our ghosts. Hence we often encounter them only late at night, in the corridors of our dreams.

  Peter Rollins

  Dream, Memories, Night

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• I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Anger, Years, Trying

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.66, ShandonPress

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• There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.

  Learned Hand

  Anger, Passion, Succeed

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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