Yours Quotes (page 437)

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• intelligent
• quality
• qualities

They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer. Terry Prachett

• old
• saying
• helpful

In old England the greatest lords think it great glory to be slapped by a queen, and made garter-knights of; but, be your boast, Stubb, that ye were kicked by old Ahab, and made a wise man of. Remember what I say; be kicked by him; account his kicks honors; and on no account kick back; for you can't help yourself, wise Stubb. Herman Melville

• inspirational
• devil
• you me

Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up!"Oh, you flatter me, Brian," Chrestomanci said. Diana Wynne Jones

• love
• soul
• loving

Immerse your soul in love. Thom Yorke

• soul
• water
• fashion

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Franz Kafka

• greatness
• people
• great

Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great! Mark Twain

• inspirational
• thoughts
• doubt

It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt Mark Twain

• commitment
• manly
• value

A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license, and unbounded license leads to unbounded tyranny. When society reaches this stage, and there is no standard of right and wrong outside of the individual himself, then the individual is defenseless against the onslaught of cruder and more violent men who proclaim their own subjective... Fulton J. Sheen

• chicken
• chickens
• hatched

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. Benjamin Franklin

• you me
• open
• do you like me

Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me. Ted Hughes

• you me
• night
• morning

I watch the morning dawn upon your skin, A splinter in the light, It caught and frayed the very heart of us, It's been hiding there inside for all this time, How a sure thing winds up just like this, Clockwork silence only knows, And it's no one's fault, There's no black and white, Only you and me, On this endless night, And as the hours run away, With another life, Oh, darling can't you see, It's now or never, It's now or never. Josh Groban

• evening
• cooking
• evenings

Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked. Neil Gaiman

• night
• leaving
• star

When I go away from you. The world beats dead. Like a slackened drum. I call out for you against the jutted stars. And shout into the ridges of the wind. Streets coming fast, One after the other, Wedge you away from me, And the lamps of the city prick my eyes. So that I can no longer see your face. Why should I leave you, To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night? Amy Lowell

• friends
• i love you
• friend

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time. There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this. Margaret Atwood

• your life
• hard
• caring

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life. Stephen King