Caryl Sade > Caryl's Quotes

“Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Life is so outrageous I could not have imagined it, made all the
sweeter because it cannot last. It is all about today. Today is the
best day ever because tomorrow might not happen.”
― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

“At one point, approximately halfway through her remarks, Merkel stated in German something about ‘being able to greet the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama,’ and an overly ambitious Obama, who perhaps thought that was his cue, headed toward the podium.  Perhaps catching the president’s movement out of the corner of her eye, Merkel thought quickly, and without even looking up from her notes, she told the excited American president, in English, ‘Not yet, dear Mr. President, dear Barack Obama.’ Obama sheepishly returned to his seat to allow the chancellor to finish her speech.”
― Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

“A French lieutenant was asked by the commander of the French forces, “Jean, it seems to me that many people are only saying the things they think that I want to hear. Accordingly, what I am getting is not information, it is fucking bullshit!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

“Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“this architect who everyone misunderstands. I completely forget to ask what she and Charlene are going to laugh about. One evening Mama takes Baylor and Little Shep and Lulu and me to Fred’s Hamburger Drive-In where we eat at least”
― Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere

“Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“People talk of their motives in a cut and dried way. Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. I am not a monster but I have not felt exactly what other women feel, or say they feel, for fear of being thought unlike others.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

“Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic. ”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“He knew, though, that there was no such thing as fair in life. Existence had no agenda. Life simply existed. It was up to them to fight for life to be worthwhile and good if that was what they wanted.”
― Terry Goodkind, Severed Souls

“The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the 'unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned'...the aware were never snobbish toward the unaware, but in fact most of that great jellyfish blob of straight souls looked like hopeless cases”
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

“Is that why you’re here?” Ben blurted “To glean one of us?” Scythe Faraday offered an unreadable smile. “I’m here for dinner.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their most exuberant companion. He never fired their imaginations or made them laugh as their mother could, but he was unfailingly interested in them, sympathetic, confiding, entering into their lives in ways few fathers ever do. It was a though he was in league with them.”
― David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback

“-Zaledwieś się zjawił na dachu, a już palnąłeś głupstwo. Chcesz wiedzieć, na czym ono polega? Na intonacji twego głosu. To, co powiedziałeś, powiedziałeś w sposób zdający się świadczyć, że nie uznajesz cieni ani zła. Bądź tak uprzejmy i spróbuj przemyśleć następujący problem – na co by się zdało twoje dobro, gdyby nie istniało zło i jak by wyglądała ziemia, gdyby z niej zniknęły cienie? Przecież cienie rzucają przedmioty i ludzie. Oto cień mojej szpady. Ale są również cienie drzew i cienie istot żywych. A może chcesz złupić całą kulę ziemską, usuwając z jej powierzchni wszystkie drzewa i wszystko, co żyje, ponieważ masz taką fantazję, żeby się napawać niezmąconą światłością? Jesteś głupi.
-Nie zamierzam z tobą dyskutować, stary sofisto – odparł Mateusz Lewita.
-Nie możesz ze mną dyskutować, z powodu, o którym już wspomniałem, albowiem jesteś głupi (…).”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“There were moments when life at school became a matter of utter indifference to him. Then the putty of his everyday concerns dropped out and, with nothing more to bind them together, the hours of his life fell apart.”
― Robert Musil, The Confusions of Young Törless

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway