Sorley Quotes & Sayings

I've gone to look for myself. If i should return before I get back, keep me here — Barbara Johnson

What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you. — Richelle E. Goodrich

When it is peace, then we may view again With new-won eyes each other's truer form And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm We'll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain When it is peace. But until peace, the storm The darkness and the thunder and the rain. — Charles Sorley

Strew your gladness on earth's bed,
So be merry, so be dead. — Charles Sorley

When I pick up a book and read it, I want to be transported. I want to be taken someplace that I didn't quite know existed, so that by the time I close the book, and return to my own reality, my world is expanded and has become a little larger and a little more complicated. — Anthony Marra

It is the middle of the night. I am woken up by an enormous explosion. When I look out of the window I see my dad. He is coughing and choking and he is coming out of the garden shed. My — Abigail Hornsea

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression. — Earl Warren

What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results. — Hillary Clinton

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold ... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow. — Bernard Cornwell

General Confession it had been watered down to we are truly sorry and we humbly repent. — Gail Godwin

When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead"

When you see millions of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you'll remember. For you need not so.
Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know
It is not curses heaped on each gashed head?
Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow.
Nor honour. It is easy to be dead.
Say only this, "They are dead." Then add thereto,
"Yet many a better one has died before."
Then, scanning all the o'ercrowded mass, should you
Perceive one face that you loved heretofore,
It is a spook. None wears the face you knew.
Great death has made all his for evermore. — Charles Hamilton Sorley

England is seen at its worst when it has to deal with men like Wilde. In Germany Wilde and Byron are appreciated as authors: in England they still go pecking about their love-affairs. Anyone who calls a book 'immoral' or 'moral' should be caned. A book by itself can be neither. It is only a question of the morality or immorality of the reader. But the English approach all questions of vice with such a curious mixture of curiosity and fear that it's impossible to deal with them. — Charles Hamilton Sorley

Shane:you only love me for my abs
clair:shut up loser shift off — Rachel Caine

You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically. — Rajneesh

I want to get more involved with the vineyards I have all over the world and to spend more time with the people who work in them. — Gerard Depardieu

I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close.
Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough. — Gayle Forman

There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction. — Biz Stone

All the hills and vales along
Earth is bursting into song,
And the singers are the chaps
Who are going to die perhaps. — Charles Sorley