Remarks Quotes - Page 3

• Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.

  Bill Bryson

  Luck, Together, Sound

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• You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

  E. M. Forster

  Accomplishment, Intention, Chairs

  E. M. Forster (2015). “Where Angels Fear to Tread”, p.118, Booklassic

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• Matthew: Shall I remind you of some of the choicest remarks you made about me when I arrived here? Because they live in my memory as fresh as the day they were spoken. Mary: Oh, Matthew. What am I always telling you? You must pay no attention to the things I say. When they kiss, it is a long kiss, all the more passionate for being delayed far longer than it should have been.

  Jessica Fellowes

  Memories, Kissing, Should Have

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• I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could see of him was a small black and white head protruding from an immovable cocoon of cloth. He and i were now facing each other, more or less eyeball to eyeball, and George couldn't do a thing about it. As i say, I rather pride myself on this little expertise, and even today my veterinary colleagues have been known to remark, "Old Herriot may be limited in many respects, but by God he can wrap a cat.

  James Herriot

  Cat, Pride, Black And White

  James Herriot (2011). “Three James Herriot Classics: All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and All Things Wise and Wonderful”, p.877, Open Road Media

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• El libro estaba en su regazo; no había seguido leyendo. El poder de cambiar la vida de uno proviene de un párrafo, de un comentario solitario. Las líneas que nos penetran son delgadas, como las aletas que viven en el agua del río y se introducen en el cuerpo de los nadadores. Estaba emocionada, llena de fuerza. Las frases pulidas habían llegado, al parecer, como tantas otras cosas, en el momento justo. ¿Cómo podemos imaginar lo que deberían ser nuestras vidas sin la iluminación de las vidas de los demás?

  James Salter

  Book, Rivers, Illumination

  "Light Years". Book by James Salter, 2011.

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• Empecé a agacharme bajo las lanzas, sólo para que los dos vampiros de la otra pared aparecieran de repente en mi cara. O, al menos, sus entrepiernas. Otro día habría hecho un comentario simpático sobre el calor y los suspensorios de cuero, pero ahora no me sentía muy simpático.

  Karen Chance

  Cute, Wall, Real

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.376, Penguin

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• Amazing, then, how with that one remark, he made a mortifying situation thirteen times worse.

  Tessa Dare

  Made, Situation, Thirteen

  Tessa Dare (2012). “A Week to Be Wicked”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Es una verdad universalmente reconocida que a uno sólo se le ocurren comentarios ingeniosos y cortantes mucho después de que la otra parte esté felizmente dormida.

  Lauren Willig

  Clever, Party, Cutting

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Secret History of the Pink Carnation”, p.232, Allison & Busby

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• It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

  E. B. White

  Animal, Attention, Charlotte's Web

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• I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. My main concern is that an over-emphasis on testing and league tables has led to a lack of time and freedom for a true, imaginative and humane engagement with literature.

  Philip Pullman

  School, League, Passionate

  "About Philip Pullman". Philip Pullman's personal site, www.philip-pullman.com.

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• It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.

  Betty Friedan

  School, College, Government

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• "I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Air, Hands, Scar

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.

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• In the two months I had also dated Justin Fellowes, this guy in my Spanish class, though after three weeks we decided we should "see other people," which in my case was a joke, but it beat hearing him remark on everything I ate. 'I don't know why girls are always on a diet,' he'd say when I ordered a Diet Coke, and 'You should watch your starch intake' when I had a muffin.

  Deb Caletti

  Girl, Class, Two

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Hero, Thinking

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• Adieu, Lord Dain", respondió ella sin volver la cabeza. "Que pase una agradable velada con sus vacas". ¿Vacas? Sólo quería provocarle, se dijo Dain. El comentario era un patético intento de provocación. Ofenderse era admitir que había sentido el aguijón. Se dijo a sí mismo que debía reír y volver a sus... vacas.

  Loretta Chase

  Laughing, Trying, Cows

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• 'When you were little, what inspired you to feel this way?'" Then he paused and asked, "Looking in the mirror and having it crack in two?" Instead of clobbering him, I laughed-the kind of laugh that escapes into the air before you can catch it. The kind of chuckle that shows a tiny form of acceptance. Trevor obviously didn't expect me to find his remark entertaining. He was primed for a fight. We both cracked up and locked eyes. His gaze lingered a little too long, not in a creepy way, but in a way that says I'm not ready to let this moment go.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Eye, Fighting, Acceptance

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• Cuando [los visitantes de su estudio:] se enteran de que el plazo de entrega de las tiras diarias es de seis semanas y el de las páginas dominicales de doce semanas, casi nunca falta un visitante que comenta: "Vaya, se podría trabajar muy duro, ¿no?, y adelantar varios meses y luego tomarse el tiempo libre". Como ya he dicho, aprendo despacio, y hasta el año pasado no me di cuenta de lo extraña que es esa afirmación. No se trabaja toda la vida para hacer algo y no tener que hacerlo.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Real, Sunday, Years

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• El lobo dijo: "Sabes, querida, no es seguro que una niña ande sola por este bosque". Caperucita Roja dijo: "Encuentro tu comentario sexista ofensivo en extremo, pero lo ignoraré debido a tu tradicional condición de marginada de la sociedad, cuyo estrés te ha hecho desarrollar tu propia visión del mundo, totalmente válida. Ahora, si me disculpas, debo seguir mi camino.

  James Finn Garner

  Niña, Estrés, Caperucita

  "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times (Little Red Riding Hood - A Politically Correct Fairy Tale)". Book by James Finn Garner, 1994.

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• Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Henry Kissinger, Trustworthy, Accepting

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1565, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Viajar solo parecía una ventaja. Nuestras reacciones ante el mundo dependen en gran medida de la compañía que tenemos, ya que moderamos nuestra curiosidad para adaptarnos a las expectativas de los demás... Ser observado de cerca por un acompañante también puede inhibir nuestra observación de los demás; entonces, también, podemos quedar atrapados en adaptarnos a las preguntas y comentarios del acompañante, o sentir la necesidad de parecer más normales de lo que es bueno para nuestra curiosidad.

  Alain de Botton

  Company We Keep, Expectations, Curiosity

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• Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Mother, Baby, Knitting

  Elizabeth Zimmermann (2012). “Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

  Alice Sebold

  Ignorant, Time And Change, Damage

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• Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Childhood, Victory

  "Imaginary Homelands". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1991.

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• ...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.

  Milan Kundera

  Feelings, Way, Action

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• Las hermanas molestan, interfieren, critican. Se entregan a enfurruñamientos monumentales, a resoplidos, a comentarios sarcásticos. Tomar prestado. Romper. Monopolizan el baño. Siempre están debajo de los pies. Pero si ocurre una catástrofe, las hermanas están ahí. Defendiéndote de todo lo que venga.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Indulge In

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