Desire Quote by Alice Munro Download Open image “Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.” — Alice Munro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Driven Gentle Speculation Time
The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is. — Jeff Kober Copy Share Image
In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation. — George Earle Buckle Copy Share Image
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." - — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Something happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, were something happened, and then there are… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Children Katy's age had no problem with monotony. In fact they embraced it, diving into it and wrapping the familiar words round their tongues… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
