Forlorn Quote by Michael Ondaatje Download Open image “We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.” — Michael Ondaatje ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forlorn Habit Habits Males This world World
It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it. — Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon Copy Share Image
One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
“And if this should lighten the toil of men," said Similarity 5-0306, "then it is a great evil, for men have no cause to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey. — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
“In spite of this, our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly toasting to one another's significance. That was a small lesson I learned on the journey. What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love - seemingly… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him play someplace where the weather for instance could change the next series of notes-- then you should never have heard him at all. He was never recorded. He stayed away while others moved into wax history,… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In… — John Keats Copy Share Image
On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the arena on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colours looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays… — George Orwell Copy Share
Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Even though kids may have planned for months for the trip to Disneyland, some may be feeling very homesick, very forlorn, or very marginalized by the group. Your capacity to perceive those kinds of situations and respond to them in a pastoral way is the stuff you are teaching. And even though the kids may appear to be ignoring you,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share
The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy. — Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Copy Share Image
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
