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May Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the…
- Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,
- To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly…
- I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or…
- She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth living long enough…
- There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order…
- When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell…
- Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong