Ferrier Quotes & Sayings

They looked to Ferrier like they ate bad food to match their bad taste in clothes and wheels. The — John Connolly

We have chosen to bring future generations into this world of rising seas and warming temperatures, droughts and floods, heat waves and wildfires, a world in which one in four mammals and one in eight birds are at risk of disappearing forever. While the damage we've done is irreversible, that doesn't give us the right to do nothing. — Leonor Varela

I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth
that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence
for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Both were aware that wealth is a relative thing, and that the positively rich are not those who have the largest possessions but those who have the fewest vain or selfish desires to gratify. — Susan Ferrier

A snail will never take a plunge in a river to find refreshment; I am refreshed wherever I am located for my source is Elshaddai... — Bayode Ojo

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing. — Richard Crashaw

The synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

I am for everything starting
into full-blown perfection
at once. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

You didn't know that ... that my whole world stopped when I first saw you smile. — Amy Lane

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide. — John Selden

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light. — David Ferrier

What will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty! — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them ... — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

I'm certain indeed, I think there's no doubt of it - that reading does young people much harm. It puts things into their heads that never would have been there but for books. I declare, I think reading's a very dangerous thing; I'm certain all Mary's bad health is entirely owing to reading. You know we always thought she read a great deal too much for her own good. — Susan Ferrier

No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst. — Ken Kesey

I may remark parenthetically that the modern apparatus of the theory of small samples, once it goes beyond the determination of its own specially defined parameters and becomes a method for positive statistical inference in new cases, does not inspire me with any confidence unless it is applied by a statistician by whom the main elements of the dynamics of the situation are either explicitly known or implicitly felt. — Norbert Wiener

But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart? — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

At night I sometimes see the figure of a man, on an empty road in a deserted landscape, walking behind a hearse. I am that man. It's you the hearse is taking away. I don't want to be there for your cremation; I don't want to be given an urn with your ashes in it. I hear the voice of Kathleen Ferrier singing, 'Die Welt ist leer, Ich will nicht leben mehr'* and I wake up. I check your breathing, my hand brushed over you. Neither of us wants to outlive the other. We've often said to ourselves that if, by some miracle, we were to have a second life, we'd like to spend it together.
*The world is empty. I don't want to go on living. — Andre Gorz

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory. — C.S. Lewis

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good! — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid in detail - just as the heavenly fragrance of the rose becomes vapid and sickly under all the attempts made to retain and embody its exquisite odor. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

There's no doctor like meat and drink ... — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

Lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

we can influence others, and change their behaviour, if: a) they are motivated to do what we are asking them to do; and b) what we are asking them to do is relatively easy. — Adam Ferrier

Can one build an honest house on dishonest foundation? I do not know. But I do know that I want to try. (Edward Ferrier) — Agatha Christie

There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

When you face yourself, you face the truth of who you are. — Stephen Richards

clever wasn't the same as honest. Ferrier — John Connolly