Quotes of: Old-world Keyword

The work of Christ on the cross did not influence God to love us, did not increase that love by one degree, did not open any fount of grace or mercy in His heart. He had loved us from old eternity and needed nothing to stimulate that love. The cross ...

The Radical Cross: Living the Passion of Christ

This was to be my last trip. Sailing great distances was dangerous, and not very profitable in today's world. I walked down the worn wooden step to the captain's cabin, the creaking of the ship keeping time with my steps. Opening the door I found him...

Neil Leckman

Where have I been? she wondered. Is a life that can now be considered an absence a life? For some time things had been going badly for her. She could cite nothing in particular as a problem; rather, it was as if life in general had a grudge against h...

Marian Engel

A woman or man of value doesn’t love you because of what he or she wants you to be or do for them. He or she loves you because your combined souls understand one another, complements each other, and make sense above any other person in this world. ...

Shannon L. Alder

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice -- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But you didn't s...

Mary Oliver

Charley Waite: [burying Mose and Tig] Be right to say some words. Boss Spearman: You want to speak with the man upstairs, go on and do it. I'll stand right here and listen, hat in hand, but I ain't talking to that son or a bitch. And I'll be holding ...

Open Range

[singing] Ulysses Everett McGill: I am a man of constant sorrow, I've seen trouble all my days. I bid farewell to old Kentucky, the place where I was born and raised. Delmar O'Donnell, Pete: The place where he was born and raised. Ulysses Everett Mc...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Stromboli: [shuts Pinocchio up in a cage] There! This will be your home - where I can find you always! Pinocchio: No, no, no! Stromboli: Yes, yes, yes! To me, you are a belonging. We will tour the world: Paris, London, Monte Carlo, Constantinopolee. ...

Pinocchio

Antonio Salieri: [to Father Vogel] So rose the dreadful ghost from his next and blackest opera. There, on the stage, stood the figure of a dead commander. And I knew, only I understood that the horrifying aparition was Leopold, raised from the dead! ...

Amadeus

…love grown dutiful is love grown old a withered cupid faltering at the bow…

Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

The Diary of a Young Girl

Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home.

The Dawning of Power

Dachux: It’s not like in the old days where you could kill a hogre or two, and nobody asked questions.

The Dragoneers

The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.

The Dream Thieves

When a bookmark tumbles out of an old book pristine and unwrinkled, it is like a gasp of breath from another century.

Free for All

You are an old pig!'one of them said to the other. 'And that is worse than being a young one.

Fathers and Sons

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Girl in a Cage

With timid curiosity, I asked, “what do you mean the old bodies get reused?

The Great Deceiver

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

A Game of Thrones

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

How We Decide

For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.

Bird After Bird