Dilys Quotes & Sayings

I want someone who can handle me. And I'm not the easiest person to handle. — Robin Givens

Never regret what you don't write. — Abraham Lincoln

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums. — Dilys Laing

The clairvoyant is simply a man who develops within himself the power to respond to another octave out of the stupendous gamut of possible vibrations, and so enables himself to see more of the world around him than those of more limited perception. — Charles Webster Leadbeater

Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to examine every item you own, decide whether or not you want to keep it, then choose where to put what you keep. Designate a place for each thing. — Marie Kondo

If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known. — John Steinbeck

I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. 'Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it.' She looks up and gives me her full gaze. 'Don't be ridiculous,' she purrs, 'I wrote it.' — Dilys Laing

Memory is a storm I can't repel. — Dilys Laing

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith. — Clay Shirky

My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher. — Rami Malek

I cannot tell you ... my little one. No man can tell you. No ... I cannot answer you, for nothing I could say would be the truth. The truth is beyond us, and is not in us. We go forward in faith. That is all.
Nobody can tell us why the Son of Man had to go. He was Prince of Light. He could have ruled the world. But He was crucified, and when men would have fought for Him, He told them to put up their swords. He allowed a rabble to crucify Him. Why did He die in that way when He could have chosen any? To save us, we know. But why did He die in only that way? It was ordained? Then dare we say that Dilys was ordained to die as she did? — Richard Llewellyn

To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds. — Dilys Laing

Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears. — Saint Ignatius

I don't write letters anymore. — George H. W. Bush