Gordimer Once Upon A Time Quotes

#1. She glanced at me briefly
I looked at her longingly,
so she believed
Finally relieved.

Sumrit Shahi

#2. Socrates should have written comics.

Mark Waid

#3. Most of living is waiting to live. And you spend a great deal of time worrying about things that don't matter and about people that don't matter and all this is clear to you when you know the very day you're going to die.

Elliott Chaze

#4. You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.

Albert Camus

#5. My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

Fiona Wood

#6. It's important to listen to those around you, and ultimately you have to decide which path you're going to go down.

Joseph Kosinski

#7. Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.

R.J. Palacio

#8. You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

James Hillman

#9. Julie helped him to feel defined. He was Julie's boyfriend. Julie's fiance. Julie's provocation. He came into focus when he stood beside her, despite the fact that the person standing beside her was mostly not him.

Meg Rosoff

#10. When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations

Bruce Cockburn

#11. Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who determine what is needed for the welfare of the whole universe, of which you are a part.

Marcus Aurelius