Talisman Quotes
15 quotes by 13 authors
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We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the result of the…
— Jacques Ellul
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest…
— John Quincy Adams
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When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence…
— Harry Hay
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The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able…
— Adam Parfrey
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,…
— Anne Fadiman
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In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem…
— Emily Rodda
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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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Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver horse, a…
— Kate Forsyth
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And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal;…
— Walter E. Williams
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There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your…
— Holly Black
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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the…
— Dorothea Brande
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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the…
— Dorothea Brande
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
— John Quincy Adams
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who Wrote These Talisman Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Talisman Quotes as follows: