Amulets Quotes
15 quotes by 13 authors
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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I'm not looking for much, I just want, like, a really nice guy who has, you know, like a job... and the missing half of…
— Maria Bamford
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The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his…
— Thorstein Veblen
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St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
— Horace Mann
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I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval…
— Joan Didion
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The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men…
— Marcel Proust
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In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.
— Francesca Lia Block
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He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Uh... ," Ivy stammered, and I glanced up to see her eyes wide in consideration. "I'm kidding," I said. "It passed the lethal-amulet test, remember?"…
— Kim Harrison
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Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.
— Kim Harrison
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The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.
— Jonathan Stroud
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It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or…
— Carly Pope
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When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Amulets Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Amulets Quotes as follows: