Udayveer Manyata Quotes

#1. As for his sudden change of heart, he had suddenly remembered the end of Mansfield Park, and how Edmund fell out of love with Mary Crawford and came to care for Fanny. Dulcie must surely know the novel well, and would understand how such things can happen.

Barbara Pym

#2. Once taken by her, you glowed
And you drank her poisons, content.
Because all the stars seemed to grow,
And fields had a different scent,
Autumn fields.

Anna Akhmatova

#3. I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

Patrick Kavanagh

#4. In six thousand years, you could never grow wings on a reptile. With sixty million, however, you could have feathers, too.

John McPhee

#5. If I go on talking and talking ... and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#6. A smile for all the stupid people out there with bleeding hearts for serial killers.

Robert Cormier

#7. I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea and the desert are both hungry, they have things to be getting on with so you do not go into them lightly.

Tim Winton

#8. I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another, and that the infinite subtlety of the shading from one extreme to the other was one of the most beautiful of nature's phenomena.

Jan Morris

#9. Infinite hopes - and fears - may both be yours. Be sure that, whatever else you get, you will not get justice." "Are the gods not just?" "Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were? But

C.S. Lewis

#10. We were men once, though we've become trees

Dante Alighieri

#11. Call, believe, hear, and preach.

Jerry Bridges

#12. It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

Lightnin' Hopkins

#13. I know that the whole point - the only point - is to
find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to
let them go.

Lauren Oliver

#14. My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.

Guy Davenport