Quotes & Sayings About Dimmesdale's Reputation

The past is a black, heavy thing. It will quietly smother our spirits if we let it. You must make peace with it and move forward. — Sarah McCoy

What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,
for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place. — Henry David Thoreau

Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school? — Terry Wogan

Then she smiles, and it turns out she has dimples, and it's all over. — Amie Kaufman

The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God. — G.K. Chesterton

For what a man is in himself, what accompanies him when he is alone, what no one can give or take away, is obviously more essential to him than everything he has in the way of possessions, or even what he may be in the eyes of the world. An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theatres, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy. — Kate Millett

Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason. — Luigina Sgarro

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome. — Gary Numan

The past is as important as the future, but we only live in the here and now. — David Millar

If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will. — Timothy Keller

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war. — John O. Brennan

But only one lady is my equal in every way. Intellectually, physically, magically." "It's all about her, isn't it?" My envy is almost palpable. "You'd endanger anyone to have her in your arms." "Absolutely, I would. — A.G. Howard