Virginia Garrett > Virginia's Quotes

“In a friendship such as ours a few slips are of no consequence”
― E M Forster

“Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay. –”
― R Zaccharias

“In the dark night of the soul, it is always three A.M.”
― Jameson Parker, An Accidental Cowboy

“All the shine of a thousand spotlights
All the stars we steal from the night sky
Will never be enough, never be enough
Towers of gold are still too little
These hands could hold the world but it'll
Never be enough, never be enough
For me.”
― Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

“Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?”
― E M Forster

“When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.”
― Lily Tomlin

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

“Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim 'I do enjoy myself' or 'I am horrified' we are insincere. 'As far as I feel anything, it is enjoyment, horror' - it's no more than that really, and a perfectly adjusted organism would be silent.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.”
― Edward Morgan Forster, A Passage to India

“I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“All men are my brothers and as soon as one behaves as such he may see my wife.”
― E M Forster

“The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him”
― Dwight Lyman Moody