Never Folded Quotes

#1. But Lando was a gambler. A true gambler never folded when he still had cards left to play.

Timothy Zahn

#2. Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

Esther Forbes

#3. He produced a handkerchief - crisply folded - and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She'd never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

Cassandra Clare

#4. She was a page torn from a calendar, a year folded neatly and laid aside in some place you never look.

William Gay

#5. Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer. Citra expected she never spoke of this to anyone else, and would probably never speak of it again.

Neal Shusterman

#6. You lie upon my heart as on a nest,
Folded in peace, for you can never know
How crushed I am with having you at rest
Heavy upon my life. I love you so
You bind my freedom from its rightful quest.
In mercy lift your drooping wings and go.

Amy Lowell

#7. In this Puritan sinkhole of a culture, we don't teach children the uses of pleasure, and so they decide we are fools and go their own way, blindly. If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks.

Paul Monette

#8. Why, in his life of frequent travel, had he never recognized the beauty of flight? The improbability of it. The sound of the engines faded, the airplane receding into blue until it was folded into silence and became a far-distant dot in the sky.

Emily St. John Mandel

#9. Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each to contain a whole ream of closely written manuscript. They had been the labour of the worthy man's whole life; and never were labour and zeal more absurdly wasted.

Walter Scott

#10. That is what I love best about dreams, and about makings, good makings. They are folded-up buds of complications and mysteries, and if you stay with them patiently, they will unfold and unfold, and never stop unfolding. Dreams are flowers that never stop blooming.

Katherine Catmull

#11. Take your clothes off slowly. For me? Ethan asked as he folded his large hands behind his head.
So he wanted a show? Cecile had never done anything that sexy in her life, and she felt she lacked any real grace, but for Ethan, she'd give it a try.

Amanda Bretz

#12. My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

Maurice Strong

#13. I've never seen an old person cry like this. The sadness from life is supposed to be folded inside an old person, not streaming out. - Iris from Crossing the Tracks

Barbara Stuber

#14. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. Nonviolence isn't sitting back with your arms folded.
It is first recognizing that the very person who is your oppressor is also your brother or sister. One day he or she may stop being your oppressor, but they'll never stop being your brother or sister. (Jose Maria Pires, p. 225)

Mev Puleo

#16. Skateistan's not just about skating. It's giving people life skills and hope for the future.

Tony Hawk