Likely Quotes (page 696)

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• alien
• lion
• awesome

Asia and Europe: tiny corners of the Cosmos. Every sea: a mere drop. Mount Athos: a lump of dirt. The present moment is the smallest point in all eternity. All is microscopic, changeable, disappearing. All things come from that faraway place, either originating directly from that governing part which is common to all, or else following from it as consequences. So even the gaping jaws of the lion, deadly poison, and all harmful things like thorns or an oozing bog are products of that awesome... Marcus Aurelius

• she
• love her
• heart

It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts. Emma Bull

• self
• look
• mind

If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me. Martha Gellhorn

• estates
• estate agents
• agent

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them. Stephen Fry

• change
• people
• society

It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar. Edward Said

• bored
• swimming
• waves

Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself. Sue Monk Kidd

• inspirational
• hair
• saying

All right, I said murder and I'll say it again as often as I like, so keep your hair on... C. S. Lewis

• light
• grateful
• expectation

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now. C. S. Lewis

• grandmother
• grace
• big

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily. Anne Lamott

• good
• time
• good times

I like blogs. they're good times. Jennifer Weiner

• strong
• people
• love

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow. John Steinbeck

• life
• freedom
• reading

I like reading and all that, but a crave to get back tot he life of my infancy and all its freedom. (Sue Bridehead) Thomas Hardy

• manly
• you me
• dead

There's a black Mercedes rollin' through the combat zone Your servants are half dead; you're down to the bone Tell me, tall man, where would you like to be overthrown Maybe down in Jerusalem or Argentina? Angelina Bob Dylan

• running
• light
• blue

Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.... Tennessee Williams

• good
• manly
• talking

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good. Will Rogers