
Top 19 A Tale For The Time Being Quotes
#2. WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.
Dave Eggers
#3. This act is an ancient tale new told;
And, in the last repeating, troublesome,
Being urged at a time unseasonable.
William Shakespeare
#4. I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.
Gregg Sulkin
#5. A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
Abraham Lincoln
#6. When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.
John Darnielle
#7. Find your security, success, and peace in God. Then, and only then, can it never be taken from you.
Mike Bickle
#8. It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.
Charlotte Whitton
#10. I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
Patrick Rothfuss
#11. Who in hell bought a mug with blue butterflies on it!" I shouted, slamming it on the counter beside the stove. "We are serious people doing serious things! I don't have time for butterflies!
Kim Harrison
#12. The right kind of listener makes a difference. When someone takes the time to hear us out, something singular happens. By being interested and showing it, the listener becomes part of the tale.
Wendy Lustbader
#13. The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
Timothy West
#14. Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.
Ruth Ozeki
#15. She'd been betwitched. She'd pricked her finger and had fallen into a deep, comalike sleep.
Ruth Ozeki
#16. A Chihuahua. They're good. If you lose one, just empty out your purse.
Jean Carroll
#17. Kids eh? Little treasures, I love 'em ... couldn't eat a whole one though ...
Murdoc Niccals
#18. In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
Tavis Smiley
#19. Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.
Quincy Jones
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