Beatified Def Quotes & Sayings

I didn't even realize how much reading meant to me until I stopped, and my world just fell apart. — Myself

Gretel: Not the type of children I want to play with.
Bruno: I could come over on a visit and no one would be any the wiser. — John Boyne

The only truth I can write is that of the instant I am living. — Italo Calvino

... struck. Once. And into that blow he put his childhood, his grief, his loss. He put his mother's sorrow and his sister's longing. The menorah, weighed down with that, crushed the Hermit's skull. — Louise Penny

In my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain ... — John Geddes

The trouble with you, M. le comte de Sevigny, is that you're too god-damned autocratic. From now on, you will kindly remember that a good military tactician requires the support of a team. We are your team. — Dorothy Dunnett

Would to God I were rid of this nether millstone within me, this hateful body of death. Blessed be the name of the Lord, the disease is not incurable, the Saviour's precious blood is the universal solvent, and me, even me, it will effectually soften, till my heart melts as wax before the fire. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared.
She would stop the blood.
She would hold him and stop his life from escaping.
She would hold life inside him and he wouldn't die — Michael Grant

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down — Bruce Lee

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals. — Gillian Jacobs

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene. — John Huston

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip. — Ronald Reagan

You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide. — Peter McWilliams

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it. — F. Murray Abraham