Direful Quotes

#1. As whence the sun 'gins his reflection
Shipwracking storms and direful thunders break, so from that spring whence comfort seemed to come discomfort swells.

William Shakespeare

#2. A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.

Marjorie Fleming

#3. There were many who went in huddled procession,
They knew not wither,
But, at any rate, success or calamity
Would attend all in equality.
There was one who sought a new road,
He went into direful thickets,
And ultimately he died thus, alone;
But they said he had courage.

Stephen Crane

#4. More is happening out there than we are aware of.
It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Edward Gorey

#5. Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings
To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks:
He withers all in silence, and his hand
Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

William Blake

#6. The 'regular' school of medicine, as a body, has ignored and will ignore this science, because it discloses the fallacy of their favorite theories and practices and because it reveals unmistakably the direful results of chronic drug poisoning and ill-advised operations.

Henry Lindlahr

#7. One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Jane Austen

#8. I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.

Joan Cusack

#9. Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. I feed off men. I lure them with my sexual tricks, then bite off their heads while they sleep."
"Ain't She Sweet?.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#11. Happily ever after?"
"If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.

Nora Roberts

#12. Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true, not exactly. The truly religious care more deeply about fewer things and do't give a hoot about the rest.

Eric Weiner

#13. In the sentence "She's no longer suffering," to what, to whom does "she" refer? What does that present tense mean?

Roland Barthes

#14. I built private sector jobs all my life.

Rick Scott

#15. For a lot of the players it was their first exposure to the Southern female - the most flagrant cheater in the mutual disarmament pact known as feminism. Lipstick! Hairdos! Submissiveness!

Michael Lewis

#16. Just because the past didn't turn out like you wanted it to, doesn't mean the future can't be better than you ever imagined.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#17. The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.

Audrey Niffenegger

#18. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.

Cassandra Clare

#19. If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

George Orwell