Reserved Quotes - Page 5

• For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.

  Haruki Murakami

  Romantic, True Love, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 10, 2016

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• [...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

  Aldous Huxley

  Kings, Holiday, Technology

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Heaven and hell”

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• There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Women, Safety

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.172

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• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.

  Aldo Leopold

  Tree, Example, Needs

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.143, Oxford University Press

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• Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hat–like figure, and would be disappointed with his reserved personality. “In mass, [children] terrify me,” he admitted.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Wall, Cat

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.86, Broadway Books

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• Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Stupidity, Growth

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• A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Self, Rome

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• The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor creates wealth and contributes to the public resources, are worth more to the United States than if they had been reserved as a solitude for future purchasers.

  Andrew Johnson

  Hands, Land, Long

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1865-January 1866”, p.476, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government Lies, Political, Deceit

  Glenn Greenwald (2007). “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”, p.119, Crown

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• One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Might, Spirit

  Richard Wagner (1972). “Prose works”

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• God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Goal, End Of Life, Ends

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.

  Kary Mullis

  Country, Past, Thinking

  Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.13, Vintage

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• I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'

  Michael Bay

  Thinking, People, Shy

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• Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.

  Guy Debord

  Believe, Secret, Littles

  "Comments on the Society of the Spectacle". Book by Guy Debord, 1988.

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• You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place in the world; that is already reserved for them.

  Tobias Wolff

  Struggle, Boys, Depth

  Tobias Wolff (2004). “Old School”, p.15, Vintage

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• It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Science, Space, Philosopher

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• I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I should have reserved those words and expressions for what came later, even though they are not strong enough. It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later. It's a mistake, for instance, to used the word frightful to describe a few broken up companions mixed into the ground: but it's a mistake that might be forgiven.

  Guy Sajer

  Strong, Mistake, Expression

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.68, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that's the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house.

  Candace Cameron

  Friday, Sunday, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

  Dee Hock

  Moving, Heart, People

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• The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.

  Lord Acton

  Government, Democracy, Limits

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on the French Revolution”, p.33, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Choosing one thing over another doesn't necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or broccoli, you may choose broccoli. It may only mean you don't want to eat spinach. Heaven is not for people who just want to skip Hell. Heaven is reserved for those who love Jesus, who have been rescued by Him and who long to praise Him. If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for Heaven.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Mean, Thinking

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• Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

  Horace

  Literature, Sullen, Modesty

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• The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Rights, Luxury, World

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• The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life.

  Billy Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Issues

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