Phases Quotes - Page 5

• I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Girl, Memories, Phrases

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• I could tell by his expression that once he got over his anger at me for keeping this secret from him, there was nothing left to talk about. He wasn't confused. He didn't need questions answered. He didn't ask why or how or with whom or whether I thought maybe it might just be a phase. He didn't ask who knew and who didn't know or whether I thought it might ruin my career. I was his sister and he didn't care whether I was straight or gay; it simply didn't matter to him.

  Portia de Rossi

  Confused, Gay, Expression

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Selfish, Men, Church

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2001). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.265, Applewood Books

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• Submit an agreement providing for the peaceful absorbtion of a celestial races in such a manner that our culture would remain intact with guarantee that their presence not be revealed." "One must consider the fact that mis-identification of these space craft for a intercontinental missile in a re-entry phase of flight could lead to accidental nuclear war with horrible consequences.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  War, Race, Agreement

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• As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, Risk, Cost

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy”, p.126, Macmillan

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• What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Character, Maturity

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• If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and cheerful and so optimistic that it made you want to puke. Missy's red phase would have been brutal and bright enough to cut your eyes. Missy's art would have been honest.

  Jackie Morse Kessler

  Art, Eye, Optimistic

  Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Feet, Watches, Tonight

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I tried to take it down, but it took so much effort to even make cracks. And then I got tired of trying. Then I justified it. This was just how adult relationships were, how love felt once you had a few battle scars.

  Gayle Forman

  Wall, Tired, Effort

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• Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Air, Evil

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients

  Lauren Oliver

  Winter, Kissing, Feet

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

  Harold Bloom

  Sympathy, Criticism, Goes On

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• There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Sadness, Triumph, Letters

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Past, Faces, Would Be

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (1999). “Selected Non-fictions”, Viking Press

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• Transformation Isn't easy when most of the people in your life think you're already perfect, and want you to stay just how they see you. Try to begin a new phase, you'd better expect push-back. Try to create a whole new you, your friend list will shrink considerably.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, People, Perfect

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.386, Simon and Schuster

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• Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moving, Leaving, Humanity

  1936 The Allegory of Love, ch.1.

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• Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.

  Edward Hoagland

  Cancer, Heart, Suicidal

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.29, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

  Lucy Stone

  Summer, Trying, Phases Of Life

  Lucy Stone, Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell, Carol Lasser, Marlene Merrill (1987). “Friends and Sisters: Letters Between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-93”, p.147, University of Illinois Press

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• Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.

  Laura Esquivel

  Order, Groups, Would Be

  Guillermo Arriaga, F. G. Haghenbeck, Reyna Grande, Laura Esquivel, Javier Valdes (2013). “Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• So . . . middle school? Awkward.Having a hobby that's different from everyone else's? Awkward. Singing the national anthem on weekends instead of going to sleepovers? More awkward. Braces? Awkward. Gain a lot of weight before you hit the growth spurt? Awkward. Frizzy hair, don't embrace the curls yet? Awkward. Try to straighten it? Awkward!So many phases!

  Taylor Swift

  School, Weekend, Hair

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• You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

  Haruki Murakami

  Different, Entering, Firsts

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• Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?

  Robin Wasserman

  Tired, Hug, Arms

  Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.97, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We have taken a major step forward in providing a new high quality education facility at Longbridge. Not only will the new Bournville College shape Birmingham's learning environment, it will also form the first phase of the new Longbridge town centre and, therefore, represents a milestone in a new future for Longbridge.

  Mike Murray

  Taken, College, Quality

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• Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.

  William L. Shirer

  Taken, Moon, Rome

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• We should leave people alone about their weight. Being chubby for a while (provided you don’t give yourself diabetes) is a natural phase of life and nothing to be ashamed of. Like puberty or slowly turning into a Republican.

  Tina Fey

  People, Giving, Weight

  "Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

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