Crowds Quotes - Page 17

• Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Prayer, Comforting, Energy

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• Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.

  Markus Zusak

  Soccer, Teeth

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• And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Purpose, Way, Lost

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• Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Lonely, Heart

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• On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Death, Saying Goodbye

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• Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me, and his father before," he said quietly. He spooned the honey onto the cover of one of her books. "Taste," he said, almost in a whisper. . . . "There is such sweetness inside of that book too!" he said thoughtfully. "Such things...adventure, knowledge and wisdom. But these things do not come easily. You have to pursue them. Just like we ran after the bees to find their tree, so you must also chase these things through the pages of a book!

  Patricia Polacco

  Children, Father, Book

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• Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays- I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd.

  James N. Frey

  Block, Real, Book

  James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.168, St. Martin's Press

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• Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Blow, Race

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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• Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

  Edith Sitwell

  Believe, Pride, Men

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.114, A&C Black

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• Harry was speeding toward the ground when the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he was going to be sick-he hit the field on all fours-coughed-and something gold fell into his hand. 'I've got the snitch!' he shouted, waving it above his head, and the game ended in complete confusion. 'He didn't catch it, he nearly swalloed it,' Flint was still howling twenty minutes later, but it made no difference-Harry hadn't broken any rules and Lee Jordan was still happily shouting the results-Gryffindor had won by 170 points to 60.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hands, Games, Differences

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• All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Past, Technology

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• I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Doors, Cities

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Unspoken Words, Path

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• The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Archer, Clouds, Wings

  Charles Baudelaire (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.17, OUP Oxford

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• The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Individual, Bigger

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.10, Routledge

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• I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Littles, Staring

  H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

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• Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Courage, Names, Everyday

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• The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs — isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different about God's love, the losers I work with want to find salvation through compulsive behaviors.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Real, Believe

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• It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing any of the details. They move in a gray crowd, always looking the same and acting the same, simple caricatures of who they really are, but once you get to know them, you notice the specific, tiniest things, you pay attention to the intricacies of their personalities, their habits and particular ways of walking and talking, the subtle changes in their appearance and dress.

  Gregory Galloway

  Moving, Simple, Talking

  Gregory Galloway (2015). “As Simple as Snow”, p.33, Penguin

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• In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Messages, Bears, Certain

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• The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

  Andre Breton

  Gun, Surrealist, Walking

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• Ripred sighed. 'I suppose so. You and I seem to end up doing everything. Shall we say four members for each delegation?' 'Why not?' Luxa said. 'Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.' Ripred laughed. 'You know, I think you an I are going to get on famously.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, Thinking, Needs

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• Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot?

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, People, Cartoon

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Passion, Space, Infinity

  "Madame Bovary".

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• Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Grief, Grieving

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 01, 2011

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