Perelandra Sparknotes Quotes

#1. Really good 'hard' novels - say, Wolf Hall - yield, if you read them carefully, the information you need when you need it, in order to follow their paths. But there is a point at which subtle storytelling maneuvers outmaneuver their own intelligibility.

Daniel Menaker

#2. We need not fear that in seeking God only we may narrow our lives or restrict the motions of our expanding hearts. The opposite is true. We can well afford to make God our All, to concentrate, to sacrifice the many for the One.

A.W. Tozer

#3. Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it.

Suzan-Lori Parks

#4. In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.

Ronald J. Sider

#5. Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.

W.B.Yeats

#6. Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.

Katherine Dunn

#7. If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I adore the feel of them, the care taken in the artwork, and the high visual stimulation that sets off the simple but often powerful message the text conveys.

Kim Harrison

#8. Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

William Monahan

#9. Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Alexander The Great

#10. It's a real thing, glory. But it pales in comparison to what we sacrifice for it.

Erika Johansen

#11. If I can fix every detail of this time in my mind, I can keep this moment always.

Betty Smith

#12. The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#14. When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.

Billy Idol