Emily > Emily's Quotes

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“As a writer, I'm always at the mercy of my inspiration, my intuition, and my imagination.”
― Kate Collier

“May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Some of God's greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

“Divine punishment are also mercies.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“There is nothing so seductive to a girl as to be loved by a poetic-depressive type. And if she is vain enough to deceive herself into thinking that she loves him faithfully by clinging to him instead of giving him up, then her task will be easy. She will enjoy both the distinction and the good conscience of being faithful, and at the same time the most finely distilled romantic love. God save everyone from such faithfulness!”
― Kierkegaard

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“God knows better than we do what we need.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.”
― John Ruskin

“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.”
― Woodrow Wilson

“We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle...We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater.”
― Woodrow Wilson

“You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours – closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyway: there it is. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about the ring. We are horribly afraid–but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring