Wendy > Wendy's Quotes

“We shall demonstrate once again that in this great, inventive land man’s idlest dreams are but the blueprints and mockups of emerging realities, technologies and poems. Here in the fashion of our pioneer forefathers, who confronted the mysteries of wilderness, mountain and prairie with crude tools and a self-generating imagination, we are committed to facing with courage the enormous task of imposing an ever more humane order upon this bewilderingly diversified and constantly changing society. Committed we are to maintaining its creative momentum.”
― Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth

“I sought my God and my God I couldn't find;
I sought my soul and my soul eluded me;
I sought to serve my brother in his need, and I found all three;
My God, my soul, and thee.”
― William Blake

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“A chasm separates that memory from this moment.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“He’ll never know the bracing sensation of diving headfirst into the river, the roar of entry followed by enveloping silence. All water is connected, and her world is limitless. He stands at the limits”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“The voyage of discovery is not about new lands, but having new eyes.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Ammachi, when I come to the end of a book and I look up, just four days have passed. But in that time I’ve lived through three generations and learned more about the world and about myself than I do during a year in school. Ahab, Queequeg, Ophelia, and other characters die on the page so that we might live better lives.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“when it’s all done, when life is almost over, what do you want to remember?”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Child, the past is past, and furthermore it’s different every time I remember it.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Mariamma, sometimes when you are most afraid, when you feel most helpless, that is when God is pointing out a path for you.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“The water she first stepped into minutes ago is long gone and yet it is here, past and present and future inexorably coupled, like time made incarnate. This is the covenant of water: that they’re all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“You can’t walk across a lake just because you change its name to “land.” Labels matter.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Philipose quotes Gandhi: “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of food.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“All water is connected and only land and people are discontinuous. And his land is a place where he can no longer stay.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Success is not money! Success is you are fully loving what you are doing. That only is success!”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Sooner or later, she must sit down to the meal of consequences”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“To be listened to is healing,”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“A dog lives for you. A cat just lives with you.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Secrecy lives in the same rooms as loneliness.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“I have been bent and broken but I hope into better shape.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice