Quotes & Sayings About Individualism In The Scarlet Letter

The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it unconsciously. — Jostein Gaarder

Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea. — Herman Melville

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history. — Derek Walcott

Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples. — Victoria Alexander

It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged. — Walter De La Mare

You are a monster." Kanin's deep voice droned in my head again, as I forced myself to move, to walk away. "You will always be a monster, there is no turning back from it. But what type of monster you become is entirely up to you. — Julie Kagawa

I hope fans will go back and listen to the Beatles and the Beach Boys or Led Zeppelin, or put on 'Tommy' and let them experience like I did that moment when 'Pinball Wizard' comes on. — Drake Bell

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable. — Conrad Wolfram

Charming. We're going to be murdered in our beds. — J. Anderson Coats

A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about. — Zac Efron

Woe to the one by whom scandal comes!" Jesus reserves his most solemn warning for the adults who seduce children into the infernal prison of scandal. The more the imitation is innocent and trusting, the more the one who imitates is easily scandalized, and the more the seducer is guilty of abusing this innocence. Scandals are so formidable that to put us on guard against them, Jesus resorts to an uncharacteristic hyperbolic style: "If your hand scandalizes you, cut it off; if you eye scandalizes you, pull it out" (Matt. 18:8-9). — Rene Girard

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. — George R R Martin