Jane Eyre And Bessie Quotes & Sayings

To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main. — Lydia M. Child

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World. — Julian Fellowes

That awkward moment right before you die when you realize you haven't done enough in life to be considered living." ~Peregrine Storke~ — R.K. Ryals

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. — Ruskin Bond

One comes back [reborn] as a son because of harmony with us [from the past life] and one comes back as a son also because of enmity [vengeance from the past life], [but] needlessly arises the illusion [wrong belief] that 'they are mine...they are mine'. — Dada Bhagwan

Professional sports are something they can't control. — Troy Vincent

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written - assume that the information in the book is at least a year older than the copyright date, and possibly two. — Jamais Cascio

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made. — Samuel Rogers

It was the black blood which swept him by his own desire beyond the aid of any man, swept him up into that ecstasy out of a black jungle where life has already ceased before the heart stops and death is desire and fulfillment. And then the black blood failed him again, as it must have in crises all his life. He did not kill the minister. He merely struck him with the pistol and ran on and crouched behind that table and defied the black blood for the last time, as he had been defying it for thirty years. He crouched behind that overturned table and let them shoot him to death, with that loaded and unfired pistol in his hand. — William Faulkner

When you're looking for somebody and you find yourself in contact with people you've never met, you are getting close. — Alan Furst

By all means use sometimes to be alone. — George Herbert

The pain of being near her and knowing that I can't give in to my feelings for her, is the worst kind of pain I've ever felt. — J.A. Redmerski

And there was some trouble with Oliver Cowdery, and whisper said it was relating to a girl then living in his family; and I was afterwards told by Warren Parish, that he himself and Oliver Cowdery did not that Joseph had Fannie Alger as wife, for they were spied upon and found together. And I can now see that at Nauvoo, so at Kirtland, that the suspicion or knowledge of the Prophet's plural relation was one of the causes of apostasy and disruption at Kirtland, although at the time there was little said publicly on the subject. — Benjamin F. Johnson