Top 100 Quotes About Cleave
#1. To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
Chris Cleave
#2. Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
Marcus Aurelius
#3. hand of a soldier on my arm but I did not turn
Chris Cleave
#5. Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart, but that didn't mean it wouldn't be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.
Chris Cleave
#6. It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.
Chris Cleave
#7. Our stories are the tellers of us. -Little Bee
Chris Cleave
#8. 'Cemetery Lake' was an interesting book to write.
Paul Cleave
#9. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
Chris Cleave
#10. Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English ... ?
Chris Cleave
#11. Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength
or else we die.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#12. I was hoping my life might make more sense from a great height.
Chris Cleave
#13. Yes but he is a man though, don't you see? You could knit one quicker than you can make one fit off-the-shelf.
Chris Cleave
#14. London had always had this trick of living in two time signatures at once - the urgent and the always - each in earshot of the other.
Chris Cleave
#15. People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.
Chris Cleave
#16. Yu only be livin one life, darlin. Don't matter yu don't uh-preshie-ate part of it, cos it don't stop bein part of yu.
Chris Cleave
#17. We have our agreement about scars, I know, but this time I looked away because sometime you can see too much beauty.
Chris Cleave
#18. LIFE is a big word, isn't it? Let's break it down into small segments. Let's find a level of granularity we can plan around; we could say we'll take it a month at a time, or a week at a time, and treat each of those modules almost as training units.
Chris Cleave
#19. In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.
Confucius
#20. I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and a wolf must be a wolf, that is the proverb in my county
Chris Cleave
#21. Do you remember back when you felt you could actually do something to make the world better?" "You're talking to the wrong man. I work for central government, remember? Actually doing something is the mistake we're trained to avoid.
Chris Cleave
#22. I smiled back at Charlie and I knew that the hopes of this whole human world could fit inside one soul. This is a good trick. This is called, globalization.
Chris Cleave
#23. Know glory but cleave to humiliation.
Lao-Tzu
#24. Who steals my purse steals trash," he said, "but who steals my sword steals honor itself, and him will I harry by wood and by water till I cleave him from his brainpan to his thighbone!
Edward Eager
#25. When the hour had come for the war to take him away, that had been the first and last moment she had known without doubt that she loved him. One knew how one felt only when things ended. And
Chris Cleave
#26. Surely someone would do something. Then I realized: what if I were that someone?
Ryan G. Van Cleave
#27. You are not dumb, Yevette. All of us who have got this far, all of us who have survived- how can we be dumb? Dumb could not come this far,I am telling you.
Chris Cleave
#28. Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.
Chris Cleave
#29. That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.
Chris Cleave
#30. lips, excused from their color, had formed words relieved of their sound.
Chris Cleave
#31. I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
Chris Cleave
#32. Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well
here is the truth
you have to talk yourself out of it.
Chris Cleave
#33. This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.
Chris Cleave
#34. Be disciplined and disciple to thrive in every situation and keep cleaved to your plans.
Israelmore Ayivor
#35. Look, do you believe in the institution of marriage?" "Of course." "And you accept that such beautiful lightning cannot strike you twice?" "Well yes, I suppose - " "Then shouldn't you get a ring on her as soon as possible?
Chris Cleave
#36. There's eight million people here pretending the others aren't getting on their nerves. I believe it's called civilization.
Chris Cleave
#37. What he had not understood, before battle, was that time could become a ribbon to be looped and pinned back to its center, the petals of a black rosette. I
Chris Cleave
#38. Come to Me and we will blow the world back together WITH INCREDIBLE NOISE AND FURY.
Chris Cleave
#39. I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
Chris Cleave
#41. Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. It was not our idea; it was God's idea.
Mike Pence
#42. I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
Giordano Bruno
#43. The future looks like gasoline ... crude oil ... is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.
Chris Cleave
#44. It was depression that killed Andrew, of course - depression and guilt. But my son didn't believe in death, let alone in the capacity of mere emotions to cause it.
Chris Cleave
#45. Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.
Chris Cleave
#46. Everything can be restored. If one won't believe that, how does one endure all this?
Chris Cleave
#47. Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
Chris Cleave
#49. God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.
Thomas Watson
#50. I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.
Paul Cleave
#51. We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
Chris Cleave
#52. We do not know the value of Christ, if we will not cleave to Him unto death!
Robert E. Murray
#53. But I've learned now that your hard work and dedication will pay off, if you dare to be different. Because why would I want to be anything other than myself?
Kristyn Van Cleave
#54. How strange it was that cleave had two such disparate meanings; she'd known to cut and tear, but now she knew to cling. She rested her cheek in the valley between his shoulder and chest. Amos
Erika Swyler
#55. Stupid is you can't learn, ignorant is you haven't learned yet.
Chris Cleave
#56. We shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good? Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness?
John Of Damascus
#57. Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud.
Meir Soloveichik
#58. He reached out a hand behind the headrest of his seat and Kate took it, and they squeezed. The pressure created a fixed point in time, to which so many accelerating events could be anchored.
Chris Cleave
#59. Murder me with bombs you poor lonely sod I will only build myself again and stronger. I am too stupid to know better I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself.
Chris Cleave
#60. One does not rise above the everyday simply because one ought to.
Chris Cleave
#61. Val's answer was as out of character for him as his presence here. I don't know nothing about birthing puppies, Miss Scarlett, but I can cleave the head off a Daimon without breaking a sweat.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#62. The only reason we were married in such haste was that my mother begged me not to marry Andrew at all. One of you in a marriage has to be soft, she said. One of you has to know how to say, Have it your way. That's not going to be you, dear, so it might as well be the man.
Chris Cleave
#63. There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.
Chris Cleave
#64. She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey.
Chris Cleave
#65. Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just delivered her back to herself, over and over and over.
Chris Cleave
#66. The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is. You
Chris Cleave
#67. There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
Chris Cleave
#68. The heart was a bicameral thing, both stoical and skittish. Who was to say that it mightn't endure the years of separation and the abrupt reversals of fate, only to be repulsed by a misaligned vase, by a lipsticked tooth, by a hundredth of an ounce of ash?
Chris Cleave
#69. You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.
Paul Cleave
#70. We looked as if we'd been cobbled together in Photoshop, the three of us, walking to my husband's funeral. One white middle-class mother, one skinny black refugee girl, and one small Dark Knight from Gotham City.
Chris Cleave
#71. Sometimes
in the rare moments when she wasn't causing quite serious mental discomfort
being friends with Zoe was like being knocked dizzy by grace.
Chris Cleave
#72. If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.
Chris Cleave
#73. In the history of the world there was not one example of a man ever having written a satisfactory letter to a woman who mattered to him.
Chris Cleave
#74. If one kept the great yellow mounds of smashed brick in the corner of one's eye, then the mind understood them as the contours of nature and forgot its trick of making one unhappy.
Chris Cleave
#76. But life is not inclined to let any of us escape.
Chris Cleave
#77. If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
Chris Cleave
#78. The good days are when you perform; the slow days are when you learn to perform better. The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.
Chris Cleave
#79. As we have considered the critical need to strengthen families and homes, we have felt that the Lord would have us encourage His beloved daughters to cheerfully cleave to their covenants. When covenants are kept, families are strengthened.
Linda K. Burton
#80. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means I've survived.
Chris Cleave
#81. I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season. Unless
Chris Cleave
#82. If I was telling this story to the girls from back home, I would have to explain to them how it was possible to be drowning in a river of people and also feel so very, very alone.
Chris Cleave
#83. Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to.
Chris Cleave
#84. What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers?
Chris Cleave
#85. There was no ritual when one fell apart, society preferring to wait until one was lost entirely.
Chris Cleave
#86. Lord," he said, "on this holiest of days, we thank you for food and ammunition. May our ships get through and the enemy's get lost." They all said "Amen" and then the orderlies brought in something that the cook had made out of bread crumbs and canned malevolence. Alistair
Chris Cleave
#87. You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future
Chris Cleave
#88. You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.
Chris Cleave
#89. I don't think that the reality of Cuba is perfect, but it doesn't cleave to the negativity, either, with which some people see it.
Fernando Perez
#90. God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.
Mother Teresa
#91. Let us cleave ... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the Scripture says in a certain place (Mk. 7:6), 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts is far from Me.'
Pope Clement I
#92. Perhaps this was what love was like after all- not the lurch of going over a humpback bridge, and not the incandescence of fireworks, just the quiet understanding that one should take a kind hand when it was offered, before all light was gone from the sky.
Chris Cleave
#93. Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
Chris Cleave
#94. Her mother set to with the hairbrush again. "But would that be so awful, darling? To be the prettiest thing in Brimscombe-and-Thrupp?"
"I should rather die."
"You nearly did."
"Yes, but I tend to blame the Germans.
Chris Cleave
#95. I'm a much better writer for being a father.
Chris Cleave
#96. It was not warm and not cold. There was no wind and the sky was very low and grey but it wasn't raining. It was like they'd completely run out of weather.
Chris Cleave
#97. I hope that when I commence that oath, my tongue may cleave to the roof of my mouth. If I ever sign one line to show allegiance, I hope my arm falls paralyzed to my side ... Get out. I'm so disgusted I can't endure your presence any longer.
Belle Boyd
#98. Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal it cannot feed upon husks.
Randolph Sinks Foster
#99. To be in love was to understand how alone one had been before. It was to know that if one were ever alone again, there would be no exemption from the agony of it. It wasn't the happiest feeling.
Chris Cleave
#100. I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself
Chris Cleave
