Unremoved Quotes & Sayings

Fiction; inner thoughts of Elisha
True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved. — William Wordsworth

I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them ... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

Farewell! I go to find the Sun! — J.R.R. Tolkien

The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet). — Seth Godin

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends. — David Byrne

Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible. — James Joyce

I ignored her and continued down the hall. I had only four more hours to perfect the Sausalito. I was worried only about myself. By that stage, I was no longer certain of how the pack felt about anything. — Karen Russell

The people's safety is the law of God. — James Otis

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. — Virginia Woolf

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. — Euripides

A decent moustache can intimidate a man, while a great moustache can frighten an army. — Anya Wylde

The truth is in the kisses. — Sandra Bullock

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery. — Rob Bignell, Editor

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. — James Taylor