C.P. Snow Quotes

When first I set eyes on The Isle of Wight Polar Bear, my world was filled, in that instant, with the magic and wonder of childhood - Suzy Davies, Author, "Snugs The Snow Bear

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought.

I wish I could see a cherry blossom or a lotus flower. Where could they be?

Life in this village is like that of a louse hanging on to a wrinkle in a loincloth.

But also . . . I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with.

It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different.

He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.

Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something, " said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything.

I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.

Oh my God, is it a bear?” Ian’s yell from across the camp made Snow stop. Then he choked as laughter spilled from his throat. “It’s not a bear, Ian, ” Rowe yelled. “It’s just Snow. Gettin’ some.

How unlucky she was--born with adventurous hooves that were stuck inside a pen. But she wasn't giving up. If there was a way out, Flora said to herself, she would find it.

I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I don't think it's oh so hard to walk four miles in the snow. I want that. I love that.

Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls.

I think we're all aiming to be something better than what everyone thinks we were born to be

You'll never make it out there. You weren't made for South Pole adventures." Flora gave her an icy look. "I think I know by now what I was made for.

You do this often?" she asked."Drink or hijack women?

Pete's a good guy.""He just slept with my mother!""I didn't say he was perfect.

Magic is a naughty beast.

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

She looked at the boy. He knew her weakness for storytelling. And it was, after all, only a story. Still, she wished he had chosen a happier one.

Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?

You know what I think? I think that the world never got the time to hate me. It just wanted to hate me long before it met me.

Until they feel what we feel, they will never fully understand the own hell they caused.

Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we mustn't cheapen it with words

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

But even the most bitter fruit can contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

I feel like I've lived numerous lives...and you can explore my incarnations through my works.

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth.

Silly girl, it's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe.

Damn the way he had control over me.

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

Somehow everything I own smells of you, and for the tiniest moment it's all not true

Why was it always the woman's fate to pace and fret and wait?

Any sentence that combined "I love you" and "but" could not be good.

Hurt? He'll never be hurt–he's made to other people.

It wasn't that he didn't love me, because I knew he did. As for me, I loved him so much it hurt.

If you want to see your life, you have to see through the eyes of another.

It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness

There's been a lot to get used to here." Esther laughed. "Isn't that the truth. I don't know if you ever get used to it really. It just gets in your blood so that you can't stand to be anywhere else.

This is her home now--of her own free will.

Clouds of confusionrolled into illusionHe veils perversionforcing her coercionHer body he takeswhile she flies awayunbelievable, she's invisible

In the face of all that has happened, it feels good, really good, to just breathe for a moment.

Well, Mrs. Charlie Wylde, I love you more than a fish loves the water.

Love? ... It's at the heart of every story.

Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.

The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.

Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?