Enotes Othello Quotes & Sayings

What is most mortifying of all is that it is chance - simply a barbarous, lagging chance. That is what is mortifying! Five minutes, only five minutes too late! Had I come five minutes earlier, the moment would have passed away like a cloud, and it would never have entered her head again. And it would have ended by her understanding it all. But now again empty rooms, and me alone. Here the pendulum is ticking; it does not care, it has no pity... There is no one - that's the misery of it! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Remember the flame, lad, and the void. It was an odd thing Tam had taught him. Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it - fear, hate, anger - until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything. — Robert Jordan

That's simple. You reason with them, and when you're through, I'll take them out and thrash them. — Diana Gabaldon

Now you're lying, Dandelion.' 'Not lying, just embellishing, and there's a difference. — Andrzej Sapkowski

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them. — Joe E. Lewis

You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside. — Janet Weiss

I like the sparkle of the vibraphone. — Evelyn Glennie

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living. — Truman Capote

I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land. — George W. Bush

When you fall in love for the first time, you're naive to every feeling that you're feeling, and you're almost obsessed with or addicted to that person. Your life is consumed by them, and everything you want to do revolves around them. I think it's great. — Alex Pettyfer

To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have. — Lamar Alexander

In the distant future, I don't want to be remembered; I want to remember! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Bahrain is very dear to me. — Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

It's not just that we remember things wrongly (which would be bad enough), but we don't even know we're remembering them wrongly, — Daniel J. Levitin