Impression Quotes - Page 28

• A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Home, Writing, Son

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Strong, Heart, Rome

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.772, e-artnow

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• I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of.

  Osamu Dazai

  Loneliness, Taken, Years

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Blow, Shining

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• Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Father, Next Day, Feelings

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!” “You did!” she retorted. “And although I can’t say that I paid much heed to your advice it so happens that I am accompanied today by my aunt!” “Who adds invisibility to her other accomplishments!

  Georgette Heyer

  Country, Aunt, Accomplishment

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• Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.

  Thomas Mann

  Eye, Men, Hysteria

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• The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.

  Howard Pyle

  Memories, Childhood, Stories

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• My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

  Oscar Wilde

  Importance Of Being Earnest, Dentist, Produce

  'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 1

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• Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Knives, Giving

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Then he said in his most excellent Mick impression, "Your powers are useless against Ninja Lords, O great zombie hunter! Surrender or feel the sting of the shuriken!

  Alan Goldsher

  Zombie, Hunters, Useless

  Alan Goldsher (2010). “Paul Is Undead”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

  Boris Pasternak

  Boredom, Doctor Zhivago, Dies

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• If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Religious, Giving Up, Independent

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Evil, Mind

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• D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast it along entirely different lines, making of it a ‘dirty little secret’, a dirty little family secret, a private theater rather than the fantastic factory of nature and production

  Gilles Deleuze

  Dirty, Secret, Desire

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• She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression of moving and living. What bothers me is that a sense of misery, and nothing else, is not enough to make a permanent soul. My enormous and morose Mademoiselle is all right on earth but impossible in eternity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Moving, Soul, Feelings

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• Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

  William Saroyan

  Book, Consideration, Reader

  William Saroyan (2005). “Essential Saroyan”

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• I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Lasting Impressions, Made

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.299, Scholastic Inc.

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• We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Miguel de Unamuno (1928). “Mist Niebla: A Tragicomic Novel”

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• In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

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• Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Faces, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Roza, my self-control is ten times stronger than yours." I opened my eyes, shifting to look into his. I brushed his hair back and smiled, certain my heart would expand and expand until there was nothing left of me. "Oh yeah? That's not the impression I just got." "Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.

  Richelle Mead

  Heart, Eye, Hair

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• Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

  J. I. Packer

  Prayer, Guarantees That, Long

  Dr J I Packer (1987). “Hot Tub Religion”, Tyndale House Pub

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• I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end.

  Sylvia Plath

  Night, Doors, Ends

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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• Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dream, Memories, Past

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.520, Vintage

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