Seasons Quotes - Page 8

• love is a deeper season than reason; my sweet one

  e. e. cummings

  Sweet, Love Is, Reason

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't know what you may have seen fit to tell her, Venetia, but so far as I understand it you could think of nothing better to do than to beguile her with some farrago about wishing Damerel to strew rose-leaves for you to walk on!" Damerel, who had resumed his seat, had been staring moodily into the fire, but at these words he looked up quickly. "Rose-leaves?" His eyes went to Venetia's face, wickedly quizzing her. "But my dear girl, at this season?" "Be quiet, you wretch!" she said, blushing.

  Georgette Heyer

  Girl, Eye, Thinking

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• My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Procrastination, Evil, Genius

  Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc

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• A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.

  Max Lucado

  Suffering, Use, Rewards

  Max Lucado (2011). “It's Not About Me: Rescue From the Life We Thought Would Make Us Happy”, p.127, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.

  Max Lucado

  Election, Cynicism, Dishes

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• Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

  James Madison

  Country, Journey, Medicine

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.36, University of Virginia Press

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• A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

  Jose Marti

  Century, Grain

  "Dedication of the Statue of Liberty". Essay by Jose Marti, 1887.

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• 'Rome' was one of my favourite shows, and I wish HBO had given it three more seasons 'cause I would have loved to continue watching it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Rome, Hbo, Wish

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.

  James McAvoy

  Awards, Kind, Ready

  "James McAvoy Interview - ATONEMENT". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 12, 2007.

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• How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

  Christopher Meloni

  Years, Firsts, Episodes

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• October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

  Thomas Merton

  College, America, Looks

  Thomas Merton (1974). “A Thomas Merton Reader”, Image

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• Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

  Bode Miller

  Change, Sports, Focus

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• I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.

  Wentworth Miller

  Couple, Home, Weekend

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.

  Thomas S. Monson

  God, Each Day, Way

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• I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

  Jason Mraz

  Virginia, Four Seasons, Four

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• Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.

  Rafael Nadal

  Careers, Clay, Four

  "Rafael Nadal - second round". Interview with L. Rosol, www.wimbledon.com. June 28, 2012.

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• When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.

  Joe Namath

  New York, Stress, League

  "Ladies love Teflon Tom -- no matter what" by Jemele Hill, www.espn.com. January 31, 2008.

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• Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

  Guru Nanak

  Spring, Quality, Peculiar

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• The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

  Chuck Noll

  Winning, Keys, Looks

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• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, New Year, Clever

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.138, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over the years, as the memory of Sophie Mol ... slowly faded, the Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive. It was always there. Like a fruit in season. Every season. As permanent as a government job.

  Arundhati Roy

  Jobs, Memories, Loss

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.16, Penguin Books India

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• But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.

  Clarice Lispector

  Forget, Strawberries

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• And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

  Homer

  Love, Years, Long

  Homer (1998). “The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation”, p.2, Macmillan

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• The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Law, Opposites

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays: First Series”, p.105, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside me. "Not true," I say. "Where were you born? What's your favourite season? Anything." "Here. Florida," he says. "I remember a woman in a red dress with curly brown hair. Maybe she was my mother, I'm not sure. And summer. What about you?" The last part is said with a smile. He smiles so infrequently that I consider each one a trophy.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Summer, Mother, Confused

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