May Quotes - Page 24

• You gonna deal with Mr. Hot and Moody?" "Not sure. I may just pull out my e-reader." He nodded. "Probably safer for your sanity.

  Sylvia Day

  Hot, Sanity, Not Sure

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.325, Penguin

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• The Homunculi may have started the war, but we were the ones who carried it out.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  War

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• It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

  James M. Barrie

  Quixotic, Magnificent, Has Beens

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.121, 谷月社

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• ..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Return, Higher, Stills

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1238, Delphi Classics

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• Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Winning, Best Effort, Growth

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.207, Random House

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• Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you will have the courage to raise your voice to the heavens, knowing that you may never get an answer.

  Emma Forrest

  Voice, Knowing, Dancer

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• Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as they like, only they will fly.

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, Law, Two

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Three Sisters”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, Sports, Time

  'Volpone' (1605) act 3, sc. 5.

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• A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Brother, Hate

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.65, SCM Press

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• You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Years, Intimate Conversation, Waiting

  Ford Madox Ford (1964). “Parade's End: A man could stand up”

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• The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life Changing, Two, Way

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.5496, Delphi Classics

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• For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

  William Shakespeare

  Exercise, Night, Ems

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.173, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone... Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone... Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone is gone.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Song, Men, Two

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• I shall return, doubt it not. Such love as ours was not created to remain unfulfilled. Whatever may happen, believe and trust in me, as I shall in you, and keep the remembrance of me in your heart without sadness and without regret.

  Baroness Orczy

  Regret, Believe, Heart

  Baroness Orczy (2011). “The First Sir Percy”, p.80, House of Stratus

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• By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one implies that such fine actions are only valuable because they are rare, and that malice or indifference are far more common motives in the actions of men.

  Albert Camus

  Powerful, Men, Evil

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• I may be a killer," Jace said, "but I know what I am. Can you say the same?

  Cassandra Clare

  Killers, Jace, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if the blows are purely imgainery. Felt just as keenly by the recipient, or the non recipient, as the case may be. But good use can be made of everything, if you are willing.

  Alice Munro

  Kindness, Blow, Understanding

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• Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

  Gayle Forman

  Honest, Liberation

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• I may not have all the time I thought I had.

  Daniel Keyes

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had." "If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Might, Rest Of Your Life

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.2820, Bantam

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• The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

  Agatha Christie

  Dream, Real, World

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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• Electricity was a reality in the universe when Moses led the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. This is true of all natural laws; they have always existed but only when understood may they be used.

  Ernest Holmes

  Children, Reality, Israel

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.50, Penguin

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• We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them.

  Christopher Pike

  Past, Thinking, Long

  Christopher Pike (2001). “Witch”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mistake, Lying, Special

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 7

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• Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Reflection, Reality

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