Curley's Wife Loneliness And Isolation Quotes & Sayings

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. — Democritus

You're crazy," pronounced Becks.
"And you're carrying eight guns," I replied. "Now that we've covered what everybody knows, can we move on? — Mira Grant

What we love to do we find time to do. — John Lancaster Spalding

A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire. — Rabih Alameddine

Elijah's question was not answered, but his prayer was. Which would you prefer, an answer to your question or an answer to your prayer? I am sure that the widow did not particularly want her question answered; she wanted her son back, and that is what she got. Had Elijah waited for his question to be answered he would have never prayed. I have had countless people say to me, "When God explains to me why He allows suffering I will believe in Him." The result in that case will be that you will never know the answer to that question here on earth. So are you going to lose your soul and be eternally lost? Or will you pray the prayer, "God be merciful to me a sinner," without your questions being answered? — R.T. Kendall

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994. — Michael Mayer

Children play at being great and wonderful people, at the ambitions they will put away for one reason or another before they grow into ordinary men and women. Mankind as a whole had a like dream once; everybody and nobody built up the dream bit by bit, and the ancient story-tellers are there to make us remember what mankind would have been like, had not fear and the failing will and the laws of nature tripped up its heels. The Fianna and their like are themselves so full of power, and they are set in a world so fluctuating and dream-like, that nothing can hold them from being all that the heart desires.
from a preface to
Gods and Fighting Men
by Lady Augusta Gregory — W.B.Yeats

Our problem as leaders is we do everything we know to do. That's not enough. We need to do everything God wants us to do. — Richard Blackaby

What's writing really about? It's about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. — Ted Hughes