Mandative Subjunctive Quotes & Sayings

With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts. — Andrew Bird

It is in order not to become victim of an assassin that we consent to die if
we become assassins. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She was so far out of my league that we were practically on different continents. And yet I'd never longed for anything as much as I longed for her. I wanted to be good enough for her; I wanted her to want me. — Kirsty Moseley

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I. — John Steinbeck

Ladies and gentlemen, those flames from the port engines are perfectly normal. The stewardess will be coming around in a moment to serve coffee, tea, or milk. I'm sorry we don't have anything stronger on this flight - regulations don't permit it. — Arthur C. Clarke

Every day, the pretty boys ask how I'm doing and if anyone is messing around with me - as if anyone else would torture me. It's kind of weird and I think I liked it better when they were just mean to me all the time, as strange as that sounds. Their being nice is like eternally having a boa constrictor around your neck and pretending that it will never choke you to death. — Matthew Quick

Now I hoard knowledge out of fear. I figure the more I know, the more I'll be able to control a situation and keep from getting hurt again. — Damien Echols

Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily. — Maximus The Confessor

He tasted deliciously of bacon. — Ruthie Knox

The great reproach always brought against Rabelais is not the want of reserve of his language merely, but his occasional studied coarseness, which is enough to spoil his whole work, and which lowers its value. — Francois Rabelais

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey. — A. N. Wilson