Seasonably Quotes & Sayings

Early one seasonably cold morning, the first day of November, in the year of our lord 1952...the Cuyahoga River caught fire.

The river burned.

It wasn't so much the river, but a huge oil slick *on* the river, though distinguishing one from the other was more a job for a chemist than a lay observer. — Mark Winegardner

You are only as big as the dreams you dare to live. — Jessica Watson

You're not broken, Dylan. I know you're not. — Molly O'Keefe

How seasonably
leaf and blossom uncurl
and living things arrange their death,
while someone from afar off
blows birthday candles for the world. — Irving Layton

M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing. — Philip Howard, 20th Earl Of Arundel

I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being. — Claudia Rankine

He freely gives grace in all its forms, to His people: saving grace, comforting grace, preserving grace, sanctifying grace, directing grace, instructing grace, assisting grace! He gives grace ... abundantly, seasonably, constantly, readily, sovereignly! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Writing is a bit like being a god — Charlie Higson

Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement. — Rainer Maria Rilke

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left. — Lemony Snicket

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties. — Mary J. Blige

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever. — Dorothea Dix

Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland. — Alexander Dubcek

After four movies, three concerts, and two-and-a-half museums, you sleep with him. It seems the right number of cultural events. — Lorrie Moore

There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating. — Jean De La Bruyere

Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed. — Horace Mann

As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency. — J. K. Bharavi

What mattered was the evolution of a relationship. — C.D. Reiss