Percival Quotes

#1. I have lost friends, some by death - Percival - others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Because infinite growth is impossible with finite resources. Any new corporate model needs to take that into account. Phillip Percival, consultant/director, IC Science

Anonymous

#3. The first two letters of the name Pluto are the initials of Percival Lowell. Its symbol is , a planetary monogram. But Lowell's lifelong love was the planet Mars. He was electrified by the announcement in 1877 by an Italian astronomer, Giovanni Schiaparelli, of canali on Mars.

Carl Sagan

#4. Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

J.K. Rowling

#5. Scarcely a year previously, his father, Percival, had been convicted of a savage and well-publicized attack upon three young Muggles.

J.K. Rowling

#6. Stressful situations cause alterations in behavior that reveal true character, Tibbs. If a person gradually begins acting like someone else altogether, you may very well find that they *are* someone else altogether" -Inspector Percival Pensive

Jessica Lawson

#7. Percival pinched his lips, sending his laugh to his eyes.

Rachel Hauck

#8. Caroline Trent hadn't meant to shoot Percival Prewitt, but she had, and now he was dead.
Or at least she thought he was dead.

Julia Quinn

#9. A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#10. Percival guessed that his prey preferred to listen, letting her friends carry on with whatever amusing nonsense filled their lives, while she privately assessed their habits, cataloging their strengths and faults with clinical ruthlessness.

Danielle Trussoni

#11. I was relying on Suliman being alive.THen when all that seemed to be left of him was Percival, I was so scared I had to go out and get drunk. And then you go and play into the Witch's hand!" "I'm the eldest!" Sophie shrieked. "I'm a failure!" "Garbage!" Howl shouted. "You just never stop to think!

Diana Wynne Jones

#12. Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.

William Golding

#13. The trouble with disagreeable people, Tibbs, is that the majority of them seem to be either one's direct relations or part of one's daily job. Present company excluded, of course" -Inspector Percival Pensive

Jessica Lawson

#14. There is nothing but death
Our affections can sever,
And till life's latest breath
Love shall bind us for ever.

James Gates Percival

#15. Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously take ourselves to be the only minds in it all.

Percival Lowell

#16. It was frustrating and exhausting to gather bits of disconnected information without understanding how it all fitted together.

Wendy Percival

#17. Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

Percival Lowell

#18. It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

Percival Everett

#19. But the same in the plural in ia must be. E, or i, are the ablative's ends, - mark my song, While or to the nominative case doth belong; For the neuter aforesaid we settle it thus: The plural is ora; the singular us.

Percival Leigh

#20. It's a bitch, ain't it? The things we assume.

Percival Everett

#21. Thought can wing its way
Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam
That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

James Gates Percival

#22. That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

Percival Lowell

#23. Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found.

Percival Lowell

#24. This land needed a sword forged in the hottest of fires to regain what was lost...and you are that sword.

S. Alexander O'Keefe

#25. In Eastern lands they talk in flowers,
And they tell in a garland their loves and cares;
Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers,
On its leaves a mystic language bears.

James Gates Percival

#26. There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

James Gates Percival

#27. Yes, there is a Government of this changing world. The Government is not in the changing world. It is in the Realm of Permanence, and though the Realm of Permanence pervades this world of change, it cannot be seen by mortal eyes.

Harold Percival

#28. How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

James Gates Percival

#29. Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.

James Gates Percival

#30. Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.

James Gates Percival

#31. This is the law: Every thing existing on the physical plane is an exteriorization of thought, which must be balanced through the one who issued the thought, and in accordance with that one's responsibility, at the conjunction of time, condition, and place.

Harold Percival

#32. Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.

Percival Everett

#33. Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.

Harold Percival

#34. I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales.

Percival Everett

#35. Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.

Percival Everett

#36. I don't think meaning exists without form, and certainly form does not exist without meaning. Meaning and story come first. Story is the most important part of fiction. Without it, what's the point? If all you care about is form, become a critic.

Percival Everett

#37. For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong, inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love.

Harold Percival

#38. Linda Mallory is the postmodern fuck.

Percival Everett

#39. O rose! the sweetest blossom,
Of spring the fairest flower,
O rose! the joy of heaven.
The god of love, with roses
His yellow locks adorning,
Dances with the hours and graces.

James Gates Percival

#40. I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

James Gates Percival

#41. Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream,
Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd;
The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam
Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.

James Gates Percival

#42. Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

James Gates Percival

#43. Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.

Harold Percival

#44. A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

Percival Everett

#45. Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

Percival Lowell

#46. The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

James Gates Percival

#47. Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

Percival Lowell

#48. Bright points in the sky or a blow on the head will equally cause one to see stars.

Percival Lowell

#49. He made enemies as naturally as soap makes suds.

Percival Wilde

#50. Man is born to die. His works are short-lived. Buildings crumble, monuments decay, and wealth vanishes, but Katahdin in all it's glory forever shall remain the mountain of the people of Maine.

Percival Proctor Baxter

#51. Roses bloom, and then they wither;
Cheeks are bright, then fade and die;
Shapes of light are wafted hither,
Then, like visions, hurry by.

James Gates Percival

#52. The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

Percival Lowell

#53. War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

Percival Lowell

#54. The recollection of one upward hour
Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer
The darkness of despondency, than years
Of gayety and pleasure.

James Gates Percival

#55. The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!

James Gates Percival