May Quotes - Page 7

• That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.

  Jay Asher

  Talking, Ideas, Different

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.175, Penguin

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• One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Honey, Phony

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1420, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Dust, Sun

  Cosmos ch. 1 (1980). Sagan denied using the phrase "billions and billions," as caricatured by comedian Johnny Carson, but the above quote approaches that phrase, and Sagan was extremely fond in his writing of the word billion or billions.

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• A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

  Joanne Harris

  Men, Numbers, Tree

  Joanne Harris (2008). “Runemarks”, p.88, Random House

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• Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. Alice: The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no... Cheshire Cat: Or, you could ask the March Hare, in that direction. Alice: Oh, thank you. I think I'll see him... Cheshire Cat: Of course, he's mad, too. Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people. Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here. [laughs maniacally; starts to disappear] Cheshire Cat: You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Thinking, White

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• I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash of expectations that can never all be met. What one-tenth of my readership may not be crazy about the other nine-tenths savors. The moment you start altering a book or a painting or any type of art as if it's a public collaborative, you crucify its soul. I'd rather irritate a few people and delight a lot than touch no one." ~ Karen Marie Moning

  Karen Marie Moning

  Art, Crazy, Book

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• For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Deeds, Accomplish

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.

  D. J. MacHale

  Dark, People, Greed

  D.J. MacHale (2002). “The Merchant of Death”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Your own love story? Your paramour may have had lovers before you. But no one has ever loved him the way you do. No one has ever heard music. Not the way you hear it. The songs are beautiful vampires, asleep in your iPod, coming alive at night, aglow. You can have them on your hours, yours to conduct. Music shapes us and we shape it.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Song, Night

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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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• The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down.

  Woody Allen

  Depressing, Afterlife, Done

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Just Because something ends dosent mean that it's a bad thing or that someones bound to get hurt,ot that it never shold have happend in the first place or whatever. But If each step brings us to the next how can we grow if we avoid everything that can hurt us?? We pretty much have no choice but to get out there and hope for the best and who knows we may even learn a thing or two on the way

  Alyson Noel

  Hurt, Mean, Two

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• I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

  Chris Colfer

  Talking, Ideas, Waiting

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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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• There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.

  Fred Rogers

  Believe, Choices, Feelings

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.128, Penguin

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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 am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Christian, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Determination, Numbers, Female

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, Knopf

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