Desisted Quotes & Sayings

My petunias," she tells me in a flat voice, "are none of your business." I — Erdrich Louise

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. — Quentin Crisp

I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage. — Bob Hope

To be honest, it's a real relief to go to Canada where I can be among my relatives. Just the kind of break I need. Strange enough, when I'm there, I can't wait to get back to Guyana. There's something that's always calling me back, something in the blood, I guess. Father Martin to Carl Dias in Racing With The Rain. — Ken Puddicombe

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. — Christian Morgenstern

And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity. — Georges Simenon

When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted. — Anne Bronte

What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? — Herman Melville

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult. — Thomas Pynchon

Laisha had got a glimpse of the vast ocean that lay before her. She could either eatch it recede from her sight or plunge into it. It was not possible to take the risk of plunging headlong into the ocean. No one viewed the ocean to be drowned into it. Everyone caught only a glimpse of it, exulted in having got this farand returned home with renewed zest. The knowledge that the ocean existed was overwhelming enough. One could wallow in the idea that there was indeed a further possibility, but one merely desisted. it was not right to acknowledge that one was also frightened of it. — Anuradha Bhattacharyya