Tolled Quotes

#1. No, he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice ... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.

Peter S. Beagle

#2. I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my quiet spaces. It was a message more than a feeling, a message that tolled like a bell: change, change, change.

Junot Diaz

#3. For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Time: the word tolled like the bells of a church. Fonny was doing: time. In six months time, our baby would be here. Somewhere, in time, Fonny and I had met: somewhere, in time, we had loved; somewhere, no longer in time, but, now, totally, at time's mercy, we loved.

James Baldwin

#5. ...great eager mists flock to heaven laden with lore, and oceanward eyes on the rocks see only a mystic whiteness, as if the cliff's rim were the rim of all earth, and the solemn bells of buoys tolled free in the aether of faery.

H.P. Lovecraft

#6. My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

Faith Prince

#7. Sin is the great clogger, and the blood of Christ is the great cleanser.

Billy Graham

#8. I turned on my heel and left her, exasperated that even as I worked my fingers to the bone to liberate women from our cloth chains, our minds remained as closed as ever to the possibility that we might deserve more than a husband, children, and growing old cooking sausage.

C.W. Gortner

#9. Together, we can create something new, something bold, and something to act as a check and balance to Washington's out-of-touch agenda.

Kevin McCarthy

#10. Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves.

Will Schwalbe

#11. He's a fucking fool"
Sophie shrugged and looked out of the window.
"Maybe. He's avoided having sex with me for more than six months now."
"I'll say it again. He's a fucking fool."
"Yes."
...
"Would it help if we fucked?

Kitty French

#12. Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.

Michele Montas

#13. President Obama deserves credit for building what you call the largest coalition to fight terror.

Dana Perino

#14. Guys are really lucky. We become our authentic selves the older we get.

Rob Lowe

#15. Remembering and forgetting are part of the same mental process. To write down one detail of an event is to not write down another (unless you keep writing forever).

Jonathan Safran Foer

#16. I have two houses in California, and they're both within a couple of minutes from the beach. So, I definitely feel at home in California and by the ocean.

Marisa Miller

#17. Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to 'earning power' and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.

Benjamin Graham

#18. He had learned what all skilled liars register if they're ever to make a career of it: Always appropriate as much of the truth as possible. A wellconstructed lie is assembled largely from the alphabet blocks of fact,

Lionel Shriver

#19. We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins. Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin