Finals Quotes - Page 28

• He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Next Day, Drawing, Effort

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.919, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke

  Aaron Allston

  Effort, Faces, Crash

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• But I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night, which, for me, was ten to fifteen pounds of candy, a riot of colored wrappers and hopeful fonts,snub-nosed chocolate bars and SweeTARTS, the seductive rattle of Jujyfruits and Good & Plenty and lollipopsticks all akimbo, the foli ends of mini LifeSavers packs twinkling like dimes, and a thick sugary perfume rising up from the pillowcase.

  Steve Almond

  Beautiful, Halloween, Night

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America”

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• Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.

  Ava Gardner

  Marriage, Thinking, Analysis

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• I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt but is one of love and friendship. We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Love And Friendship, World

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.297, Macmillan

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• People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, People, Machines

  Don DeLillo (2004). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Earthquakes, Hopeful

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2528, Delphi Classics

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• It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.

  Anna Godbersen

  Summer, Morning, Laughter

  Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Gone, Coldness

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. Not that I wouldn't love to have a final roll in the hay - I am a man yet, and something never die - but the thought of those sweet kernels bursting between my teeth sure sets my mouth to watering. It's fantasy, I know that. Neither will happen. I just like to weight the options, as though I were standing in front of Solomon: a final roll in the hay or an ear of corn. What a wonderful dilemma. Sometimes I substitute an apple for the corn.

  Sara Gruen

  Sweet, Men, Thinking

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• When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Prudent, Compromise, Negotiation

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Blue to get ready Green to go Yellow to guide you through the snow Orange to warn you that over you’ll go Then red will be the final glow Now seek the black, there’s no going back.

  Angie Sage

  Blue, Yellow, Orange

  Angie Sage (2012). “Queste: Septimus Heap”, p.333, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mean, Italian, Order

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.68, Penguin

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• The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.

  Haruki Murakami

  Soccer, Lonely, Couple

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• Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her.

  Nalini Singh

  Beautiful, Distance, Knees

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.1200, Penguin

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• Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.

  Truman Capote

  Summer, Sweet, Memories

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• In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Years, Nostalgia

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Love in the Time of Cholera”, p.90, Penguin UK

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• Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

  Douglas Adams

  Book, Reading, Pages

  Douglas Adams, John Lloyd (2013). “The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There Should Be Words For”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

  John Steinbeck

  Brain, Weapons

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

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• My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!

  Maureen Johnson

  Dream, Sticks, Shovels

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• In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.' I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.130, Open Road Media

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• Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.

  Mitch Albom

  Watches, Textbooks, Research

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.10, Broadway Books

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• Why was man created before woman? Because you always need a rough draft before the final copy.” – Chloe Traeger

  Jill Shalvis

  Men, Needs, Rough Drafts

  Jill Shalvis (2011). “Head Over Heels”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't

  Baroness Orczy

  Simple, Knives, Doe

  Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Knowing, Defeat, Reason

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