Foolish Quotes - Page 12

• But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Gratitude, Love You, Inspired

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• I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all....a day.....an hour.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Tired, Want

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1014, Bantam

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• Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. “What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?” Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. “Any place,” he said huskily, “where you are.

  Judith McNaught

  Beautiful, Garden, Feelings

  Judith McNaught (1991). “Almost Heaven”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• You could kill me, Alice, he looked at me seriously. That's how much you mean to me. As foolish and masochistic as that makes me, you are so much to me that even if it destroys me to be with you, I'll be with you!

  Amanda Hocking

  Mean, Kill Me, Masochistic

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• Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

  Milan Kundera

  Sacrifice, Broken, Today

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• Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Goal, Perspective, Everyday

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• I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business." "Where is your husband?" asked Ozma. "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.

  L. Frank Baum

  Husband, Eye, Nursing

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “Ozma of Oz: American Literature”, p.105, VM eBooks

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• ...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.

  Piers Anthony

  Temptation, Sweetest, Known

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• There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are others who cling to the rules because they fear that there is no passion there at all, and that if they let go they would simply remain where they are, foolish and unmoved; and they could bear that least of all. Living a life of iron control lets them pretend to themselves that only by the mightiest effort of will can they hold great passions at bay.

  Philip Pullman

  Letting Go, Passion, Iron

  Philip Pullman (2009). “The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ”, p.61, Canongate Books

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• I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Crazy, Sound, Emotion

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne's House of Dreams”, p.143, Gideon House Books

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• Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Clever, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.29, Om Books International

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• Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we’re standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Summer, Running, Home

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• One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Silly, Want

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• Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?" Her eyes welled. "Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh Marcus, you can't carve God in stone. You can't limit him to a temple. You can't imprison him on a mountaintop. Heaven is his throne; earth, his footstool. Everything you see is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails.

  Francine Rivers

  Moving, Fall, Eye

  Francine Rivers (2012). “Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection”, p.361, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Girl, Lying, Home

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• She had forgotten them all; forgotten Richard down in the mud, and the marquis and his foolish crossbow, and the world. She was delighted and transported, in a perfect place, the world she lived for. Her world contained two things: Hunter, and the Beast. The Beast knew that too. It was the perfect match, the hunter and the hunted. And who was who, and which was which, only time would reveal; time and the dance.

  Neil Gaiman

  Two, Perfect, Hunters

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• Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.

  Rumi

  Angel, Men, Clouds

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.122, Shambhala Publications

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• God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

  John Wilmot

  Wise, Kings, Promise

  John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart

  Marilyn Monroe

  Hurt, Sorry, Heart

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• It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, World, Needs

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.110, Ballantine Books

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• Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Justice, Sound

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• I have to get back there." I said to Adrian. "Into that door." He arched an eyebrow. "What, like sneaking in? How very black ops of you. And oh, you know— dangerous and foolish." "I know." I said, surprised at how calm I sounded as I admitted that. "But I have to know something, and this may be my only chance." "Then I'll go with you in case that guy comes back," he said with a sigh. "Never let it be said Adrian Ivashkov doesn't help damsels in distress.

  Richelle Mead

  Doors, Eyebrows, Guy

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.154, Penguin

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• One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

  Otto von Bismarck

  War, One Day, Balkans

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• Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Thinking, Fire

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• Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.

  Anne Lamott

  Drinking, Commitment, Acceptance

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