S.L. Ross Quotes

Just because he was not a monster did not mean he wouldn’t be treated as one.

If this was what it meant to be human, for now she saw more clearly than she ever had done, she didn’t want to be.

Love is the only emotion so unexplainable and unique, that not even the greatest of writers could hope to contain it within their meagre words.

Time is indifferent of the events and triumphs and tragedies of mankind, and really even, for the most part, of its own inexorable passage.

It seemed everything would be alright after all.

Life does wait, if only for a limited time.

It is always those closest to us who can cut us the deepest.

If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.

Lets build a happy little cloud.Lets build some happy little trees.

I think she must have lived where all the sad poets live, in that secret place where everything hurts all the time.

Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.

Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.

The last trillion-dollar industry was built on a code of 1s and 0s. The next will be built on our own genetic code.

What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it. Where is the moment?

Religious patients seemed to differ little from those without a religion.

I guess sometimes the truth just isn't worth believing... Personally, I've always felt that life's too short for truth. I'm just here to be entertained.

The trouble with believing conspiracies is you start seeing them everywhere, right? And everything becomes a part of them. But, of course, the trouble with not believing them is becoming a dupe.

Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn’t lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word “Woe, ” which she handed out gaily declaring, “Woe is me.

It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.

I'm sometimes scared that I'm forgetting what my dad was like.

The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days.

Greatness is obedience to what Jesus said, to the commission to go to the ends of the earth. It means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone, in the Name of Jesus Christ.

The true adventurer sees his glass as half full even when there are things swimming in it.

if people do not have responsibility, do not expect them to behave responsibly.

The past was filling the room like a tide of whispers.

Our pasts haunt us all.” I admitted, in a rare moment of perfect clarity.

I may be immortal, even if for a short time. But if it were up to me, I would not endure for even one more day.

Quite honestly, there are days when I don’t need a God who will deliver me from the pit, just a God who will get down in a pit with me.

Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle.

The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure.""So what, it's stupid to even try?""No. It's unwise to hope."- Something Like Stardust

Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.

I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.

Now of course in hindsight, such a wonderful thing, though never around when you actually need it, I know that I always loved her deeply.

It was just the way he was made.

Only what you choose is what makes you.

The truth is often of no consequence.

Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?” “I don’t even know what language that is.

That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.

I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.

... you're never alone if you've got a book for company.

you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.

No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.

Where the hell is your sense of self-preservation, woman? You reckless, beautiful, stray cat!

May the magic within you shine through!

The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others.