Enormity Quotes (page 11)

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• thinking
• saying
• manly

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean. Oscar Wilde

• smoking
• breakfast
• door

Bilbo Baggins was standing at his door after breakfast smoking an enormous long wooden pipe that reached nearly down to his woolly toes (neatly brushed)—Gandalf came by. J. R. R. Tolkien

• friend
• friends
• death

I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in times of trouble, friends who have been kind enough not to sue me when I’ve used their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affection, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge... J. K. Rowling

• life
• men
• tragedies

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous. Preston Sturges

• inspirational
• time
• waste

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please. Stephen King

• time
• emotional
• mind

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds Thomas Merton

• sky
• black
• forest

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face. Joseph Conrad

• love
• fall
• saying

On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes. Philip Larkin

• drinking
• alcohol
• enormous

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol. Aldous Huxley

• expectation
• understanding
• library

Despite our enormous brains and jam-packed libraries, we germ hotels cannot expect to understand absolutely everything. Kurt Vonnegut

• focus
• thinking
• humanity

We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; were always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Paulo Coelho

• life
• giving
• chance

Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks. Mary Quant

• commitment
• wellness
• earth

Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like. Wole Soyinka

• eyes
• mortality
• enormous

A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Arthur Conan Doyle

• fear
• new
• possess

The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader. Oliver Goldsmith