Quotes of: Sincerest-form Keyword

Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroads formed years and miles apart.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.

Rebel Angels

[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.

Radiant Days

For the first time she called it sex. With no time or desire to analyze her words, he shook off an unidentifiable hollow sensation forming in his middle.

Temporary

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.

Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey

That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.

Terrorscape

I know a lot about forming personal connections with people. Not from, you know, personal interaction or anything, but from reading about it alone, in silence.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society

Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.

The Untold Tale

We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter." (p. 22)

An Unnecessary Woman

We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval "ur-matter," atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while been gathered into collections that think they are us.

The Void

Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence.

Venom

Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.

Voice of Reason

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

Wuthering Heights

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.

Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

The Writing Life

Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.

Writings And Speeches

Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept from others the purposes which control their conduct.

Writings And Speeches

Michael and Gabriel- "Creatures of an unremembered beginning, born of light and sent to protect this place and live among men of free will. To comfort them in death and guide their souls to a new form." Angels

The Watchers

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

A Wrinkle in Time

Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the tur...

Billy Evans