Quotes of: Letter Keyword

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

A Wild Sheep Chase

This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)

Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

Russell Baker

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

Laurence Housman

I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God's honour and their own salvation and that of other men.

Jan Hus

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.

Fredrik Bajer

I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't write it down, then tomorrow I will forget it and it's gone.

Isabel Allende

I receive really powerful personal letters. I think that always takes the cake. It blows me away... some of the comments. Someone will come and I sense their whole tone and energy when they're handing me this letter.

Eliza Dushku

A love letter lost in the mail, forgotten, miss delivered and then discovered years later and received by the intended is romantic. A love letter ending up in someone's spam filter is just annoying.

B.J. Neblett

The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than wri...

David Crane

[Handing the journalist his letters home] Colonel Robert G. Shaw: Got some letters here, personal things. Also, if I should fall, remember what you see here.

Glory

Baron Nishi: [reading the letter from the mother of Sam, the dead marine] And always do what's right because it's right.

Letters from Iwo Jima

Evey Hammond: [holding out Valerie's letter] I thought about keeping this, but it didn't seem right, knowing you wrote it. V: [takes the letter, then:] I didn't.

V for Vendetta

In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not answer a man's letter.

Chinese

Two natures beat within my breast The one is foul, the one is blessed The one I love, the one I hate. The one I feed will dominate. -Anonymous

Crowded Skies: Letters To Manhattan

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.

Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958

...in my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.

Dear Sister: Letters From Survivors of Sexual Violence

The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.

Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

Beyond Psychology: Letters and Journals, 1934-1939

Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.

In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison