Spell Quotes - page 11

[Nelson] "... I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife." "What are those?" Janice is truly interested; she has never heard a man spell it out. He makes a cross evasive face. "You know – don't play naïve. Reassurance. Affection. Make the guy think he's great even if he isn't." (John Updike)
If an S and an I and an O and a U With an X at the end spell Su; And an E and a Y and an E spell I, Pray what is a speller to do? Then, if also an S and an I and a G And an HED spell side, There's nothing much left for a speller to do But to go commit siouxeyesighed. View quote
Charles Follen Adams
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. View quote
John Adams
Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Thus, the theists take their cue from manufacture, the pantheists from growth. For one man, the world is like a thought or a grammatical sentence in which a thought is expressed. For such a philosopher, the whole must logically be prior to the parts; for letters would never have been invented without syllables to spell, or syllables without words to utter. View quote
William James
Light, colour, love - let me come under your spell. Life can be represented only by a lively kind of painting. There is clarity in passion. View quote
Stefan Szczesny
I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract: I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him.I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered: - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff. View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
It was not so long ago that the Bible enjoyed a stranglehold similar to that of the Quran over vast populations in the West. The theocracies propped up by the Bible in Europe and America had enacted similar sagas of slaughter and pillage for several centuries. But a sustained Western scholarship showed up the Bible for what it was. "It would be more consistent,” proclaimed Thomas Pain, "that we call it [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God.” The spell of Jehovah was broken.... The rest is history. Christianity is now seeking a refuge in countries like India where its rout in the West remains unknown. View quote
Sita Ram Goel
Hindus are a terrorized society which has internalized and made a virtue out of a cowardly habit - the habit of surviving by flattering Islam and Muslims acquired during the long spell of Islamic invasions and rule. Mahatma Gandhi was the best representative of this damaged Hindu psyche. (Sita Ram Goel)
Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence. View quote
James Allen
That was how I came to understand, how I came to know why all these brothers wrote and talked so big. Even the Knowledged feared the streets. But the rhyme pad was a spell book-it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back. That summer, I knew what Fruitie was trying to say, that when under the aegis of hip-hop, you never lived alone, you never walked alone. View quote
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The last thing we want is a nasty divorce between humans and superintelligent machines, for that would certainly spell the end of the human race. View quote
Newton Lee
I have kept hidden in the instep arch Of an old cedar at the waterside A broken drinking goblet like the Grail Under a spell so the wrong ones can't find it. View quote
Robert Frost
Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was. But I gave myself up to it; it was an antidote to any pain, and I had more pains than one. View quote
Henry James
I'm weary, I'm weary. Oh! pleasure is pain When its spell has been broken again and again. I am weary of smiles that are bought and are sold, I am weary of beauty whose fetters are gold, I am weary of wealth-what makes it of me But that which the basest and lowest might be? View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is a flower, a purple flower Sown by the wind, nursed by the shower, O'er which Love has breathed a power and spell The truth of whispering hope to tell. (According to the Lady's Book of Flowers, 1842, this is the centaury) View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There are a thousand fanciful things Linked round the young heart's imaginings. In its first love-dream, a leaf or a flower Is gifted then with a spell and a power: A shade is an omen, a dream is a sign, From which the maiden can well divine Passion's whole history. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Let worldly coldness and care depart, And yield to the spell of the minstrel's art. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My spell is done, my prize is won; True love! thou hast equal none; True love! who could choose for thee Gold or gems or vanity? Where is the spell whose charm will prove, Like the spell of thy charm, true love? (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Statues but known from shapes of the earth, By being too lovely for mortal birth; Paintings whose colours of life were caught From the fairy tints in the rainbow wrought; Music whose sighs had a spell like those That float on the sea at the evening's close Language so silvery, that every word Was like the lute's awakening chord. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Oh, blessedness ! To see the fair creations of the thought Assume a visible form ; sweet Poesy ! How witching is thy power upon the heart ; Enchantment that does bind our senses up In one unutterable influence ; A charmed spell set over every thought, Till life's whole hope is cast upon the lyre. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A soft and blue Italian sky, - the blue That painters and that poets love, - the blue The lover worships in the maiden's eyes, Whose beauty is their power and spell. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I have won him, and shall keep him ; for to his weak temper habit will be as fetters of iron. I have won him - but how? He remembered not the earnest and devoted love of the young heart, which was his, and his only. Even my beauty failed to influence his selfish carelessness : but he is mine by a more potent spell. Love may be given in vain,- beauty may be powerless ; but I have mastered by the deeper magic of flattery. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon