R.A. MacAvoy Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By R.A. MacAvoy
The rose," he announced. "Loveliest and most formidable of flowers. Arms of York and Lancaster. In medieval times, a symbol of Jesus. Always, it has meant, beauty, love, peace ..."
He presented the bud to Martha Macnamara. It lay resting on his long fingers until she scooped it up. She sniffed it and held it up to the light.
"Symbol? What's a symbol? This is a rose." She smiled and walked on,. — R.A. MacAvoy
She turned to John to share the joke, and he was transfixed, looking into the catastrophe of her sagging, bleary-eyed face. — R.A. MacAvoy
There was that odor about her: not a sweetness, exactly, but a wildness suggesting breezes that have touched cold water and living wood. — R.A. MacAvoy
Systems analysts rarely call their parents from across the country with mysterious problems. Still more rarely do they disappear. It is not part of the technical mentality to disappear. — R.A. MacAvoy
What was she, after all, except the memory of all she had done, telling her the sort of person she was and guiding her next act consistently? Without that, what was left but blind chance and leaves blown meaninglessly through the trees? — R.A. MacAvoy
Fire was Mr. Long's chosen element; he had no sympathy with the rain. Yet he knew water was preordained to win, in the end. In man's end, at least. No vault or sepulcher could keep out the damp forever, and even ashes dissolved. — R.A. MacAvoy
Grabbed in the ass by fate," his father used to say about coincidences like this. If there were coincidences like this. If there were coincidences... — R.A. MacAvoy
But two things I have ever respected are warmth and the ability to sit still." Martha — R.A. MacAvoy
Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone. — R.A. MacAvoy
But engineers can be really naive about themselves; they think because they can design a pc board and it's right and it works, that everything they do or believe is going to be just that right. — R.A. MacAvoy