"I knew that I had turned my world……" — Mary Stewart
"I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands."
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19 Quotes by Mary Stewart
Mary Stewart has 19 quotes on this site.
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The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful…
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...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you…
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Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the…
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But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least…
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I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when…
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It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond,…
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Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were,…
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To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to…
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I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.
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It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are…
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The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
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More Cinders Quotes
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one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
— Walter Raleigh
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If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or…
— Lewis Mumford
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Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.
— Ingrid Newkirk
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What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it…
— Helen Keller
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But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and…
— Owen Feltham
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The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is like an old-time rail journey--delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and…
— Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero,…
— Dylan Thomas
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