M. E. W. Sherwood Quotes
A horse blanket, Mel?I remembered what I was wearing. 'It tore in half when Hrani tried washing it. She was going to mend it. This piece was too small for a horse, but it was just right fo
I might wish our Windthorn men were less obsessed with war, but I have to admit it keeps them busy.
And we are made different. On the instant. What we know, what we were, is banished by that instant, razed like a castle under siege, and nothing is recognizable is left. The world is unmade.
What's it really like to always be the prettiest person in a room? Dos it mean you're always acting as if in a play, because no one stops looking at you?''Life is a play, isn't it?
What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?''That's not good, that's triumph,
If everywhere you go everyone watches you, and wants you, can you truly be yourself?
To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.
Here and there a man respected the operator. Instinctively the man felt in him a glowing resentment of something he had not the courage to resent.
We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.
Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved.
What’s the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we’re willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?
One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man.
I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.
To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.
There's death and life, you see. We all shine on. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. ...Somebody loves you.
I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.
No, my career as a warrior princess, short as it had been, was over, I thought morosely. Violence only works if you're good at it. Otherwise, it hurts too much.
But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.
You must try to forget all you have learned, ' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.
She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender look in her eyes? Is she dreaming of me as she walks along the streets?
If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.
I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it. --Robin
Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it.That is all. We eat it.
Time is the only commodity that is irreplaceable: invest it, share it, spend it...but never waste it.
Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.
What is to be got at to make the air sweet the ground good under the feet can only be got at by failure trial again and again and again failure.
In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong but something greater: it seems inevitable.
Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?
If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is all life to become important to him?
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass make love work when they have to bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too."
Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.
The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.