Being There Quotes (page 96)

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• friendship
• colourful
• seemed

There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance. Oscar Wilde

• storm
• may
• cold

There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared. Arthur Conan Doyle

• night
• manly
• nurse

There’s some of them’ll be nursing a guid scratch or two on their hinder-ends this night.… Man, it was a rout.’ ‘I imagine,’ said Piero Strozzi, his dark face impassive, ‘that my lord Grey’s army would not relish their defeat either.’ ‘Oh, aye, the English,’ said Buccleuch absently. ‘We are, after all, at war with them and not with the Kerrs,’ the Marshal said mildly. Dorothy Dunnett

• good
• who
• made

There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• manly
• greatness
• people

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man. Bertrand Russell

• thinking
• wellness
• ironic

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. Sherwood Anderson

• manly
• world
• perfect man

There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a fact. Every other basis is a sort of sentimental confusion, full of merely verbal echoes of the older creeds. Those verbal associations are always vain for the vital purpose of constraining the tyrant. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• secret
• secrets
• which

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Edgar Allan Poe

• hell
• high
• fourteen

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles. Laurell K. Hamilton

• you me
• always
• me

There's always be a me and you. James Patterson

• happy
• love
• happy love

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand

• feeling
• queen
• cat

There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling. Douglas Adams

• best
• time
• contentment

..there are times when it is best to be content with one has, so as not to lose everything. Jose Saramago

• end
• true
• may

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got. Anne Tyler

• end
• look
• choose

There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see. Jodi Picoult