Saving Quotes (page 25)

• 
• 
• 

• universe
• believe
• society

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried itfairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agreewith my constitution. Probably I should not consciously and deliberatelyforsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands ofme, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a likebut infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preservesit. Henry David Thoreau

• writing
• wall
• save

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing. Charles Bukowski

• believe
• beauty
• greek

The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty. E. M. Forster

• time
• just
• timing

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? Douglas Adams

• friends
• friend
• free

Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends! J. K. Rowling

• kindness
• kids
• giving

I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race. Pete Seeger

• art
• saying
• says

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion. Richard Wagner

• love
• door
• sometimes

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. Rumi

• love
• any
• interests

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest. Mae West

• life
• your life
• moments

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is. Neil Gaiman

• wolf
• today
• tomorrow

either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow Ogden Nash

• horse
• waves
• fall

The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping. Virginia Woolf

• sick
• love her
• physics

Sharon saved my life, Sharon is my life, and I love her. And I was terrified that I was going to lose her. But as much as I wanted everything to be normal and right, I was terribly sick, physically and mentally. Ozzy Osbourne

• water
• butterfly
• she

she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind thescreen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved tobecome butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or eversometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• brave
• stupid
• choices

We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks. J. K. Rowling