Affirmatives Quotes

#1. It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives.

Francis Bacon

#2. The affirmative of affirmatives ... is love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

Marguerite Duras

#5. But she also said that by staying strong, you can become the light for those who need you most.

Scott Snyder

#6. What's past is prologue, and the world awaits.

Lisa Mantchev

#7. In her experience, dead children, unlike dead adults, always looked as if they were sleeping - though she understood that there was an element of wishful thinking whenever she had come across corpses that young.

Chris Bohjalian

#8. There is another capital beneath the waves, She plunged ten thousand fathoms beneath the sea.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Understand what he was saying. Nico wished the coach hadn't brought the megaphone. Not only was it loud and obnoxious, but also, for no reason Nico understood, it occasionally blurted out random Darth Vader lines from Star Wars or yelled, THE COW GOES MOO!

Rick Riordan

#10. There was nothing like a little jealousy to make a man step up to the plate.

Melody Anne

#11. The bold display of our unattractive parts is an effective substitute for beauty since it duplicates beauty's principal effects, namely the excitation of admiration, charm, and envy in the beholder, who is moved to wish that they too could carry their own defects with the same ease.

Agona Apell

#12. We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more.

William Shakespeare

#13. It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another ... for in it are good and evil mixed.

Lloyd Alexander

#14. A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

Fulton J. Sheen

#15. We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.

Bell Hooks

#16. In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

Marcus Tullius Cicero