Ronald Blythe Quotes

#1. Willem has just glanced at the birthmark on Allyson's wrist, giving him an urgent desire to taste it again. Between her feet and her wrist, he is having a hard time getting out the door.

Gayle Forman

#2. One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

Ronald Blythe

#3. Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

Ronald Blythe

#4. Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

Ronald Blythe

#5. When we seek to change others to suit our desires we engage in folly, but when we seek to improve ourselves, as an example to others we can change the world.

Christopher Earle

#6. They found it hard to imagine the smog-choked cities of the Twentieth Century, and the waste, greed, and appalling environmental disasters of the Oil Age.

Arthur C. Clarke

#7. Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

Ronald Blythe

#8. A race driver needs to be quick, to be intelligent, to have good relationships and be in the right place at the right time. There are a lot of factors that would create a successful race driver.

Bruno Senna

#9. Both of my trembling hands went up to cup her perfect, oh so beloved face. My voice was somehow steadier than my hands as I asked her my question. Do you love me at least as much as you hate me?

R.K. Lilley

#10. He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

Ronald Blythe

#11. Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

Nancy Duarte

#12. When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another collected stories. I wanted to do another book like 'Drown' that focused specifically on infidelity.

Junot Diaz

#13. The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Ronald Blythe

#14. I'd gone heavy on the black eye makeup until raccoons and I could pass for cousins.

Jeaniene Frost

#15. To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude ... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Ronald Blythe

#16. As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

Ronald Blythe

#17. Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

Ronald Blythe

#18. I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?

Ronald Blythe

#19. Be careful what you
Think you want, it can only
Be just what it is.

T.C. Eisele