Henry V Exeter Quotes & Sayings

My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes. — Nicole Holofcener

If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so. — Terry Goodkind

I'd never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school. — Nicky Whelan

I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all! — Lorrie Moore

Al shook his head. "Honestly," he said. "How can you use such things?"
Mary Frances finished her thought. Use was an interesting word, the word for tools, talents, whores. She wanted to say, At least I'm using something, but she looked at his face, and she couldn't. — Ashley Warlick

Love is what it is and love does what it does to survive. It's an instinct. — Elle Casey

Faith' and 'science' inhabit totally different spheres, and do not overlap, even to share the same vocabulary. — Joyce Carol Oates

What is the scholar, what is the man for, but for hospitality to every new thought of his time? Have you leisure, power, property, friends? you shall be the asylum and patron of every new thought, every unproven opinion, every untried project, which proceeds out of good will and honest seeking. All the newspapers, all the tongues of to-day will of course at first defame what is noble; but you who hold not of to-day, not of the times, but of the Everlasting, are to stand for it: and the highest compliment, man ever receives from heaven, is the sending to him its disguised and discredited angels. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She thought she was a sensible girl. But some kind of love had taken hold of her and refused to let her go, and it wasn't a happy, easy, joyful thing, it had her in a vice-like grip. — Harriet Evans

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. — Edward Gibbon

I am so sad, Eleanor, so sad that my body has become transparent, I've shed so many tears. Is it possible to dissolve into water without leaving a trace? — Leonora Carrington