Shall Quotes (page 35)

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• self
• wall
• door

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all? Christina G. Rossetti

• fate
• seize
• seizing

I shall seize fate by the throat. Ludwig van Beethoven

• life
• him
• manly

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• earth
• bored
• eyes

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see. Edward Abbey

• history
• understanding
• reflection

The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the understanding of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine I have written my work not as an essay with which to win the applause of the moment but as a possession for all time. Thucydides

• travel
• busy
• him

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Benjamin Franklin

• hand
• book
• thinking

It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it. Tony Hancock

• impressive
• personal
• saying

I shall quite briefly mention here the notorious atheism of science. The theists reproach it for this again and again. Unjustly. A personal God can not be encountered in a world picture that becomes accessible only at the price that everything personal is excluded from it. We know that whenever God is experienced, it is an experience exactly as real as a direct sense impression, as real as one’s own personality. As such He must be missing from the space-time picture. ‘I do not meet with God... Erwin Schrodinger

• death
• fear
• die

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal. Benjamin Franklin

• die
• words
• last

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words) John Newton

• touching
• greatness
• evening

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory. I haste now to my setting: I shall fall. Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. William Shakespeare

• missing
• it is what it is
• ever

I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is? Sylvia Plath

• dog
• lies
• ups

He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas. Benjamin Franklin

• drawing
• touching
• hard

Unless I can stretch and touch something hard, I shall be blown down the eternal corridors for ever. What then can I touch? What brick, what stone? and so draw myself across the enormous gulf into my body safely? Virginia Woolf

• dream
• live
• dreaming

If you have no dreams, you shall live within them Robert Burton