Letters Quotes

Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).

Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

Gansey studied Adam's erratic handwriting. His letters always looked like they were running from something.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.

he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to write to me.

I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?

I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

This day I see that pretty much all my correspondences are love letters.

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome.

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went.

Children spell love with four letters: T-I-M-E.

I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.

Fate! This four letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!

Always welcome your customer's scorn. This rule says read the complaint letters. Categorize them. Decide how you are going to wipe them out.

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

It is no coincidence that the words 'trying' and 'dying' are only a few letters apart.

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.

If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

Jan Bhagidari is the biggest asset of a democracy. We are increasing it through MyGov, letters from citizens, Mann Ki Baat and other initiatives.

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I swear!" I'm not buying it. I don't believe them.

It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.

If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises.

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again.

I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door.

Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.