Finny Phineas Quotes & Sayings

Everyone contributed to this legend except Phineas. At the outset, with the attempt on Hitler's life, Finny had said, "If someone gave Leper a loaded gun and put it at Hitler's temple, he'd miss." There was a general shout of outrage, and then we recommended the building of Leper's triumphal arch around Brinker's keystone. Phineas took no part in it, and since little else was talked about in the Butt Room he soon stopped going there and stopped me from going as well - "How do you expect to be an athlete if you smoke like a forest fire?" He drew me increasingly away from the Butt Room crowd, away from Brinker and Chet and all other friends, into a world inhabited by just himself and me, where there was no war at all, just Phineas and me alone among all the people of the world, training for the Olympics of 1944. — John Knowles

I should like to slip out of the public gaze...to bury myself in the farm and devote my attention to farming and educating." Mahatma Gandhi — Joseph Lelyveld

Nothing's bigger than me!" Frey shouted back. "Me is all I've got. — Chris Wooding

Be a man and breathe life back into the woman in me. — H.A. Kotys

That's what sacrifice is - beauty and tragedy. It's pain and suffering for something or someone you love. And — M. Leighton

There must be a God because you are the Devil. — Catherine Hardwicke

Gene, on the desire to be Finny: I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas. — John Knowles

The Master was slipping from his official position momentarily, and it was just possible, if Phineas pressed hard enough, that there might be a flow of simple, unregulated friendliness between them, and such flows were one of Finny's reasons for living. — John Knowles

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. — Benjamin Disraeli

This century faded - as did the last several - and she was Aphrodite again, goddess of lust and pleasure and sex, and she was home. — Liz Meldon

What makes you so special? Why should you get it and all the rest of us be in the dark?"
The momentum of the argument abruptly broke from his control. His face froze. "Because I've suffered," he burst out. — John Knowles