A Quotes
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“And they say, if ever a traveler plucks the wild parsley, and takes the bark of the hazel tree, and the secret toadstools, and mixes them with crocus from the patch of forest where the hero's last bones lie, a powerful spell will come to life. The hero will be reborn, not as he was before his destruction, but many times stronger in body and spirit; for he will be filled with the strength of earth, sea, and air. I think of the seven of us as the parts of one body. We may be torn asunder, and it may seem as if there is no tomorrow for us. We may each travel our own path, and we may fall and be broken and mend again. But in the end, as surely as the sun and moon make their way across the arch of the heavens, the strength of one is the strength of seven.”
Source: Daughter of the Forest
“And they say: None entereth paradise unless he be a Jew or a Christian. These are their own desires….Nay, but whosoever surrendereth his purpose to GOD while doing good, his reward is with his Lord; and there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they grieve.”
“And they say she loathed everyone in the whole wide world, except for the boy from the bell tower.
—Lady of Dark Days, by Dahntel”
Source: The Midnight Star
“And they say that money change you, but money don't change you. It just make you more of what you already are”
“And they say women act on emotions when it comes to cars.”
Source: Anti-Nice Guy
“and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off.”
Source: Brokeback Mountain
“And they stuck to their guns and fought for Sean Connery, and they were right to fight for Sean Connery. If it wasn't for Sean Connery, we wouldn't all be here. I was raised to fight for what I believed in, so I wasn't going to give up. I wanted Daniel Craig, and Michael wanted Daniel Craig, so we just stuck to our guns. Fortunately, we had the right management who really stuck with us. Thanks to that, we got our choice. He's been an extraordinary Bond, and he is very much the right Bond for the 21st century.”
“And, they tell us, we at home
Live free from danger, they go out to battle: fools!
I’d rather stand three times in the front line than bear
One child.”
Source: Medea
“And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.”
“And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.”
“And they think they knew me. How sad, I thought I knew myself too”
“And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“And they told me to keep watch over a ‘lady.’”
I couldn’t help but smirk. A lady.
I lunged and defeated her guard.
I was a war mage.”
Source: Candidate
“And they, too, passed on, so that Nesvítski did not learn who had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it.”
Source: War and Peace
“And they tramped off to the forests with sturdy youths bearing guitars, twang-twang!”
“And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it.”
“And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.”
“And they were in love in spite of the ban on reading-even better. They were in love in spite of Mom and Dad, math homework, a French essay, a bedroom that needed tidying. They were too in love to go down for supper, they loved each other more than desert. They were too heads over heels to join in the soccer game or go mushroom picking. They had chosen each other and preferred each other to anyone else. My God, how beautiful love is. And how short that novel was.”
“And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?”
Source: Dispatches
“And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.”
Source: Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.”
“And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you.”
“And they will pause just for an instant, and give a sigh to me, and think, "Poor girl!" believing they do great justice to my memory by this. But they will never, never realize that it was my single opportunity of existence, as well as of doing my duty, which they are regarding; they will not feel that what to them is but a thought, easily held in those two words of pity, "Poor girl!" was a whole life to me, as full of hours, minutes, and peculiar minutes, of hopes and dreads, smiles, whisperings, tears, as theirs: that it was my world, what is to them their world, and that in that life of mine, however much I cared for them, only as the thought I seem to them to be. Nobody can enter into another's nature truly, that's what is so grievous.”
Source: Desperate Remedies
“And they will put you in exile
And will make you behave,
But you must show them,
Love has more shades than
all the colors combined could have.”
Source: Ethereal
“And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.”
“And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“And they would ask, well, now, are you one of those narrow-minded Baptists who think only Baptists are going to heaven? To which I enjoy replying, now actually I'm more narrow than that, I don't think all the Baptists are going to make it.”
“And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.”
Source: The Rock: A Pageant Play
“And they'd [the Death Eaters] love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.”
“And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.”
Source: Winter's Tale
“And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much.”
“And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.”
“And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.”
“And things are never okay. It does get better I guess, in that you grow to love yourself if you're lucky. But it doesn't get better because life is hard, and people aren't always nice.”
“And things go unsaid soon get forgotten”
“And things were back to normal except we were just friends.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
Source: The Prophet
“and think of dual reverberations
in a forest: insects and bamboo
with wild lilies amid thick drops
of snow, then dream in white”
“And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.”
“And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?”
Source: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
“And thinking is not like a book you can pick up when you want to, in your own time.”
Source: Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
“And, thinking of this judgment I would no longer be able to change, I suddenly felt a kind of relief, as if peace could come to me only after the moment when there would be nothing to add and nothing to remove in that arbitrary ledger of misunderstandings, and the galaxies which were gradually reduced to the last tail of the last luminous ray, winding from the sphere of darkness, seemed to bring with them the only possible truth about myself, and I couldn’t wait until all of them, one after the other, had followed this path.”
Source: Cosmicomics
“And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.”
“And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest of its first two activities.”
“And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board.”
“and this ache
this trembling ache
haunts me endlessly
like you.”
Source: She Had Some Horses
“And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.”
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.”
Source: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
“And this ain't no place for the weary kind
This ain't no place to lose your mind
This ain't no place to fall behind
Pick up your crazy heart and give it one more try”
“And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas.' ... The words all begin with the same letter!"
"The men of my islands are all a bit mad," William said proudly.”
Source: The Name of the Rose