Quotes of: Beneath Keyword

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

James A. Baldwin

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Juvenal

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

Julia Ward Howe

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

Tullian Tchividjian

We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.

Ashly Lorenzana

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

Ashly Lorenzana

There is treasure hidden beneath the entire land, but the problem is people are unwilling to dig it out.

Waqar Masood

If all goes well, we will be back in time for a proper memorial service [for your father], Ben. I promise." Ben looked up, and all the bitterness was gone from his eyes, replaced somehow by both resignation and determination. "And if all doesn't go w...

Curses Beneath Her Feet

That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. We were tinpan alleycats, but the gift of music h...

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, the face they own when they’re grown, and the face they’ve earned when they’re old. But when ...

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one li...

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could kee...

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as for...

Turbulent Sea

This bed yawns beneath the weight of our absent selves.

The Complete Collected Poems

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

A Game of Thrones

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.

The Art of Acting

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Meditations

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

Middlesex

Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms...the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars...

Soledad

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

The Satanic Verses

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.

That Frequent Visitor