Spells Quotes - Page 23

• If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Angel, Vision, Utterance

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• Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.

  John W. Gardner

  Art, Creativity, Practice

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• When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.

  Marcel Proust

  Children, Soul, Age

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• Truth casts a spell of its own.

  Libba Bray

  Casts

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.212, Delacorte Press

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• The spell was simple and I'd said half of it before she even figured out that it was a spell. Since you like bubbles so, In a bubble you must go. In that bubble you will stay Till your bubbles go away. Sound can't pass from inside out Even if you scream or shout. If you want to be set free, End your spell, that's the key

  E.D. Baker

  Simple, Keys, Going Away

  E.D. Baker (2008). “Once Upon a Curse”, p.189, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.

  A. A. Milne

  Tuesday, Helping, Cute Winnie The Pooh

  'The House at Pooh Corner' (1928) ch. 5

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• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Writing, Use, Synonym

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• I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The most well-known of these is, of course, I love you. But by far the most deadly is, if only. For these two words can strip a man's strength, his courage and his confidence. They become the father of regret and anguish and pain.

  David Gemmell

  Pain, Regret, Father

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• Time cast a spell on you but you won't forget me, I know I could have loved you, but you would not let me. I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you, you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you

  Stevie Nicks

  Love You, Voice, Sound

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• County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

  Bill Watterson

  Library, Needs, Definitions

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• A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.

  William J. Johnston

  Names, Luck, Would Be

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• There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That's where prayer comes in.

  George S. Patton

  Prayer, Military, Army

  "The True Story of The Patton Prayer" by James H. O'Neill. Review of the News, www.pattonhq.com. October 06, 1971.

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• Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?" "A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!" "Well?" I demanded. "Does it tell how to defeat Set?" "Better! The title reads: The Book of Summoning Fruit Bats!

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Bats, Titles

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Who sings of all of Love's eternity
  Who shines so bright
  In all the songs of Love's unending spells?
  Holy lightning strikes all that's evil
  Teaching us to love for goodness sake.
  Hear the music of Love Eternal
  Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.

  Jon Anderson

  Life, Song, Teaching

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• Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.

  Shana Alexander

  Jobs, America, Wife

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• Daisy smiled and said, "Jay Berry, you won't die. You may think you will, but you won't. In a day or two, you'll be as good as new, I hope." "You're just saying that because you heard Papa say it," I said. "No, I'm not!" Daisy said. "I'm saying it because I'm a nurse, and nurses are supposed to cheer up their patients." I knew all too well that once Daisy had gotten into one of her Red Cross nursing spells, it was ridiculous to even think of trying to argue her out of it. So I just groaned, closed my eyes, and sat there while

  Wilson Rawls

  Cheer, Eye, Nursing

  Wilson Rawls (2010). “Summer of the Monkeys”, p.143, Yearling

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• I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

  Lou Rawls

  Space, Long, Soul

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• Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Character, Work Out

  "My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition".

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• Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Rain, Heart, Rivers

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 04, 2015

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• Was it weird having a witch grandma? Scary? Was she always, like, threatening to cast spells if you were bad?" "Most of the time she just threatened to send me to my room." "That doesn't sound so scary to me." "That's because you haven't met her.

  Richelle Mead

  Grandma, Scary, Sound

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.479, Penguin

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• I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I lie motionless, savoring the feeling of her body against mine. I'm afraid to breathe in case I break the spell.

  Sara Gruen

  Lying, Feelings, Skins

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• I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Love, Inspiring, Thinking

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• Perfectionism spells paralysis.

  Winston Churchill

  Perfectionism, Paralysis

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• People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like putting myself under a spell. And this spell, if you will, is so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell when I come back. It's almost like hypnosis.

  David McCullough

  Real, Book, Hypnosis

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• I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

  George M. Cohan

  Names, Long, Care

  Quoted in John McCabe, George M. Cohan (1973)

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