Quotes of Marilyn Butler

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English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

- Marilyn Butler

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“ The evolutionary algorithm of all life on earth is written in this universal language we call love. ”

- Wald Wassermann

“ If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Ladies, it’s harvest time!!! Take care of your crops, water them and weed them out. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. ”

- Anonymous

“ Repentance is not at an end, Instead it’s the beginning of how it ends. ”

- Yeth Bisto

“ Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ”

- Mae West

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ The one that’s different often has the odds stacked against them but usually ends up with the biggest rewards so it’s always worth it. ”

- TorronLee Dewar

“ I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ”

- Stephen Chbosky

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld