Stirrings The Giver Quotes & Sayings

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man. — Thomas Paine

It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides. — Charles Dickens

For a moment it seemed incomprehensible to me that anyone would build a whole city when all that was needed was a room for her. — Lydia Davis

I just feel like, if I drink, I want to drink a case of beer and not two beers. Two beers doesn't do anything for me. — Chris Pratt

They got the guns, but we got the numbers. — Jim Morrison

Of course I'd hallucinate a zebra. Why couldn't I dream up Robert Pattinson or, better yet, a river of Gatorade? — Lynne Matson

My bed was pushed up hard against the wall just below the window. I loved to sleep with the windows open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open my windows and put my head on my pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak. There would be raindrops blown onto my face, too, if I was lucky, and I would imagine that I was in my boat on the ocean and that it was swaying with the swell of the sea. I did not imagine that I was a pirate, or that I was going anywhere. I was just on my boat. — Neil Gaiman

You're either growing or dying. Stagnation does not exist in the universe. — Steve Siebold

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions. — Natalie Merchant

They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites. — Jordan Belfort

The best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator. — Thomas Boswell

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. — Dag Hammarskjold

The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust. — Paulo Freire

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath. — Joseph Rotblat

Old age by nature is rather talkative. — Marcus Tullius Cicero