A Summer Novella Quotes & Sayings

There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe. — Alexandre Dumas

[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in The Dream of John Ball that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind. — Christopher Hitchens

As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God — Matthew Parris

He lived one of those lives that seem otiose because they are not linked to any community of interest, because all the riches stored in them by a thousand separate valuable experiences will pass when their last breath is drawn, without anyone to inherit them. — Stefan Zweig

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time. — Nicholas Sparks

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again. — Dorothy Fields

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable. — Jimmy Reid

They could then see the faint summer fogs in layers, woolly, level, and apparently no thicker than counterpanes, spread about the meadows in detached remnants of small extent. On the gray moisture of the grass were marks where the cows had lain through the night - dark-green islands of dry herbage the size of their carcasses, in the general sea of dew. From each island proceeded a serpentine trail, by which the cow had rambled away to feed after getting up, at the end of which trail they found her; — Thomas Hardy

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all. — Vikram Rohit Shetty

People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something. — Lindsay Lohan

Absolutely. No more pretending! — Dana Burkey

What did you do to Amma?"
"I was late to school." He studied my face. I studied his.
"Number 2?" I nodded. "Sharp?"
"Started out sharp and then she sharpened it. — Kami Garcia