Sweet Quotes - page 63

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it. (Giordano Bruno)
"There is nothing like the ocean to remind you of what is important,” she said quietly, and smiled. Cadrach's returned smile was weak. "Ah, by the Good Lord, that's true,” he groaned. "I am reminded that life is sweet, that the sea is treacherous, and that I am a fool.” Miriamele nodded solemnly, staring up at the bellying sails. "Those are good things to remember,” she said. View quote
Tad Williams
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms. View quote
George MacDonald
'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near. View quote
Charles Lamb
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet. View quote
Charles Lamb
Those evening bells those evening bells How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime. View quote
Charles Lamb
Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam. View quote
Charles Lamb
[Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized. The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools. View quote
John Muir
The crime is how we deliberately keep out of touch, Pretending it has nothing to do with us... How familiar the metaphors, we think, suspecting our House servants of having killed & eaten our pet cats! At the University, expatriate lecturers gesticulate, Finger the leaves of Marx to a batch of yawning students, Nervously trying to define something or other... Colonies of storks in flamboyant trees look down on The valley dust and the last of the sweet bananas. View quote
Jack Mapanje
The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind but is very sweet. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me? (Alexandre Dumas)
You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances. View quote
Alexandre Dumas
Woman is a scorpion whose grip is sweet. View quote
Ali
That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council. View quote
Nostradamus
Mournfully, oh, mournfully, The midnight wind doth sigh, Like some sweet plaintive melody Of ages long gone by. View quote
William Motherwell
Crying amid the glittering sea, Naming it with the ecstatic breath, Because it had such dignity, By the sweet name of Death. View quote
William Butler Yeats
For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about. View quote
Sandra Bullock
As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory. View quote
Bob Marley
The harder the battle the sweet of jah victory. View quote
Bob Marley
Sweet is a grief well ended. (Aeschylus)
I know you're shining down on me from Heaven, like so many friends we've lost along the way. And I know eventually we'll be together, one sweet day. View quote
Mariah Carey
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he' View quote
William Blake
I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine,But O, he lives in the moony lightI thought to find Love in the heat of day,But sweet Love is the comforter of night. View quote
William Blake
Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, colour by convention; atoms and Void [alone] exist in reality. (trans. Freeman 1948), p. 92. View quote
Democritus