Likely Quotes (page 434)

• 
• 
• 

• drunk
• road
• men

...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home. Boethius

• love
• sky
• greatness

Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss. Gustave Flaubert

• time
• liars
• chance

Me?" said Bragg. "I'm not alive. Revived, from time to time - maybe. but not alive."Liar."Try me."You forget, Mister Bragg - Stu honey - Stuart darling - Bragg baby. I already have."They had almost reached their destination. Col said: "I don't have burn marks for nothing, my dear. I don't have these scars by chance. I'm covered with your fingerprints. Covered from head to toe and back again on the other side."You sound just like Minna," said Bragg. I know," Col said. "I know I do. I've been... Timothy Findley

• learning
• learns
• incitement

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. Audre Lorde

• preferred
• preferences
• something

People like you to be something, preferably what they are. John Steinbeck

• leaving
• mind
• mindfulness

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board. Edith Wharton

• silence
• heart
• eyes

I dined with Legrandin on the terrace of his house by moonlight. "There is a charming quality, is there not," he said to me, "in this silence; for hearts that are wounded, as mine is, a novelist whom you will read in time to come asserts that there is no remedy but silence and shadow. And you see this, my boy, there comes in all our lives a time, towards which you still have far to go, when the weary eyes can endure but one kind of light, the light which a fine evening like this prepares... Marcel Proust

• love
• rain
• caring

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you. Edwidge Danticat

• lined
• poet
• assembly line

The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line. Rollo May

• memories
• moments
• wonderful

These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean. Lawrence Durrell

• time
• personal
• personality

This is hurting me a lot more than it’s hurting you," he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he was right. Worse than the boil was the stuff that came out of it. What got to me, and got to him even worse, was the stench, which was unbearable, and unlike anything I had come across before. It was, I thought, what evil must smell like—not an evil person but the wicked ideas that have made him that way. How could a person continue to live with something so rotten inside? And... David Sedaris

• powerful
• hair
• power

He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare. Charles Bukowski

• hope
• cheese
• prize

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. W. H. Auden

• him
• feeling
• military

How do you feel?" he asked him."Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out. Douglas Adams

• helpful
• enough is enough
• greatness

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them;... William Kingdon Clifford