Quotes About Nature In Tess Of The D'urbervilles

#1. Tess was awake before dawn - at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.

Thomas Hardy

#2. I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

Garth Greenwell

#3. The influence of the iniquitous system necessarily fosters an unfeeling and cruel spirit, even in the bosoms of those who, among their equals, are regarded as humane and generous.

Solomon Northup

#4. Work is the divine provision God has given to every man through which we can all provide for our needs, for the needs of our families and others.

Sunday Adelaja

#5. I still live in the same place I've lived all my life.

Susan Straight

#6. I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.

John Derbyshire

#7. What I want to know it whether we're supposed to change or just accept who we are?

Betsy Lerner

#8. Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.

R.C. Sproul

#9. Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget,

Brad Meltzer

#10. I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!

Thomas Hardy

#11. If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn't that be your mother?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. He was getting to the point that he didn't understand why tax attorneys didn't just kill themselves.

Orson Scott Card

#13. I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you

William Shakespeare

#14. I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.

Paul Reiser

#15. The thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.

Joyce Grenfell

#16. I just think love is stupid.

Lauren Conrad