Characters In The Sun Also Rises Quotes & Sayings

Whatever results you're getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world. If things aren't going well in your outer life, it's because things aren't going well in your inner life. It's that simple. — T. Harv Eker

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful. — John Powell

I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower. — Henry David Thoreau

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. — Kahlil Gibran

Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when my shoulders lean against Yours, make me feel Your scourging; when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist, make me feel Your passion; when my head comes near Yours, make me feel Your thorns; when my heart is close to Yours, make me feel Your spear. — Gemma Galgani

Thanks to you guys and girls who read my stuff, too. May you have long days and pleasant nights. — Stephen King

In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them. — Kevin Keck

I like to see what future generations are thinking about. — Billie Jean King

Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous — Andy Stanley

Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role. — George Singleton

[about Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises] His characters are as shallow as the saucers in which they stack their daily emotions. — The New York Times

Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I'd been on combat missions. 217 days. And I'm still paying the price for every one of those days. — Vladislav Tamarov

The emotional brain existed long before the rational brain. — Deborah Sandella

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror. — Brene Brown

Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you're about as likely to find someone else interested in it. — Lore Sjoberg

You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a a shame in a woman to be an infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded. — Oscar Wilde

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. — Stephen Hawking