Donna > Donna's Quotes

“What a lovely thing a rose is!"

He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.

"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“Of the first few hauntings I investigated with Lockwood & Co. I intend to say little, in part to protect the identity of the victims, in part because of the gruesome nature of the incidents, but mainly because, in a variety of ingenious ways, we succeeded in messing them all up.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase

“God rest her soul and may she never walk at night”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase

“I'ts how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our back, and Lockwood standing in between them, calm and unafraid.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Hollow Boy

“If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music ... Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. ”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.”
― Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

“All books are judged by their covers until they are read.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“Clearly, being anxious is a full-time and rather exhausting occupation.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“When the impossible becomes merely difficult, that's when you know you've won." - Agatha Swanburne”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“If you have ever opened a can of worms, boxed yourself into a corner, ended up in hot water, or found yourself in a pretty pickle, you already know that life is rarely (if ever) just a bowl of cherries.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“A well-organized stocking drawer is the first step toward a well-organized mind.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“If you have ever opened a can of worms, boxed yourself into a corner, ended up in hot water, or found yourself in a pretty pickle, you already know that life is rarely (if ever) just a bowl of cherries. It is far more likely to be a bowl of problems, worries, and difficulties. This is normal and should not be cause for alarm.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“No hopeless case is truly without hope." - Agatha Swanburne”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“I supposed this is what is meant by 'growing up'...Find out the difference between what one expected one's life would be like and how things really are" -Lady Constance”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“Complaining doesn't butter the biscuit" -Agatha Swanburne”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“That which can be purchases at a shop is easily left in a taxi; that which you carry inside you is difficult, though not impossible, to misplace" -Agatha Swanburne”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“She had chosen Dante because she found the rhyme scheme pleasingly jaunty, but she realized too late that the Inferno's tale of sinners being cruelly punished in the afterlife was much too bloody and disturbing to be suitable for young minds. Penelope could tell this by the way the children hung on her every word and demanded "More, more!" each time she reached the end of a canto and tried to stop.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole. Hyperbole is usually harmless, but in some cases it has been known to precipitate unnecessary wars as well as a painful gaseous condition called stock market bubbles.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Mysterious Howling

“There's only one truth”
― aoyama gosho

“Don't judge from the outside. Like any beautiful rose has thorns... the more a person appears nice on the outside, the more you should doubt the inside.”
― Gosho Aoyama, 名探偵コナン 45 [Meitantei Conan 45]

“to keep believing in life, until you're sure of death, it's the way a detective should be." - Kogoro Mouri, Detective Conan”
― Gosho Aoyama

“Is a reason nesessary? I don't know why you would kill someone. But as for saving someone... A logical mind isn't needed, right? -Kudou Shinichi”
― Gosho Aoyama

“If you force me to pick one color, it'd be Black... It covers up the things inside of me that I don't want to be known. Well, for the same reason, black is the color I hate, too...”
― Gosho Aoyama, Detective Conan: Showdown with the Phantom Thief Kid Special Edition

“Words are like knives... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.”
― Gosho Aoyama, Detektif Conan Vol. 54

“Fear of death is worse than death itself...”
― Gosho Aoyama, Detektif Conan Vol. 58