Dalloway Flowers Quotes

#1. There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

Anthony Fauci

#2. True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#4. The world has loosened, like a woman preparing for bed who lets her hair flow free. And I am whispering the words, knowing that words matter, and smiling as I say them to the shadows of the gods of this place who linger in the air to watch me and hear me.

Colm Toibin

#5. She lays the book face down on her chest. Already her bedroom (no, their bedroom) feels more densely inhabited, more actual, because a character named Mrs. Dalloway is on her way to buy flowers.

Michael Cunningham

#6. Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat ... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.

Duke Ellington

#7. In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Lee Iacocca

#8. The only person who can limit your possibilities is you.

Jon Gordon

#9. To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Joseph Addison

#10. They were twenty-seven already, in no time at all they'd be thirty, terrifying. No one knew what would happen then. Michelle couldn't imagine anything more than writing zine-ish memoirs and working in bookstores.

Michelle Tea

#11. The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations, and steers resolutely toward bankruptcy.

Peter Kropotkin

#12. life sciences doubt the existence of soul not just due to lack of evidence, but rather because the very idea of soul contradicts the most fundamental principles of evolution. This

Yuval Noah Harari

#13. The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

Leslie Jamison

#14. Archery is definitely easier outside, as I can attest after that one time I tried target practice in my father's throne room. And driving the sun ... well, that's not really an indoor sport either.

Rick Riordan

#15. Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

Virginia Woolf

#16. Amazingly, if God calls us to do something, He will help us accomplish it. We may doubt or we may simply believe. God chooses us for a particular reason. He is STRETCHING us from the inside out ... to reach the lost, to provide hope, to be like Jesus on earth.

Dana Arcuri

#17. As far as Im concerned, I regret nothing.

Miyamoto Musashi