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Him Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- If any of you on your journeys see her-shout to me, whistle...he sang, and it became a habit for audiences to shout and whistle in…
- A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.
- There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you can do anything…
- Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is…
- Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between…
- You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with…
- Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before…
- He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?
- Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.
- when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light…
- You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If…
- I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden