William Faulkner Quotes

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

William Faulkner

• Brave
• Bored
• Deserve
• Match

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• I really love storytelling.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Love
  • Really
  • Storytelling

• I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Never
  • Lonely
  • Bored

• You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Bored

• I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Bored

• The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Love
  • Child
  • Angel

• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Love
  • Marriage

• I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Me
  • Challenge

• Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Like
  • Design
  • Act

• I'm never bored.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Never
  • Bored

• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Trust

• You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Friends
  • House
  • Marriage

• Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rules is there will be at least one thing in every game that I worked on that no one on the planet has seen before.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Rules
  • Deserve

• I love men who make me laugh.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Men
  • Love
  • For Her

• Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Love
  • Sex
  • For Her

• I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Right
  • Match
  • Tina Fey

• The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Voice
  • Deserve

• That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Man
  • Brave
  • Coward

• When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Feel
  • Same
  • Lonely

• Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Life
  • Human

• My mum wanted me to go to university.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Me
  • Go
  • University

• In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Good
  • Achieve
  • Finding

• Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• Now we characterise Russian-Chinese relations as a strategic partnership, even a special strategic partnership. We have never had such a level of trust with China before. China is our major trade and economic partner among foreign states. We implement joint multi-billion projects. We cooperate not only within the UN Security Council, which is logical, as both China and Russia are permanent members of the UN Security Council, but also within such regional organisations as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, BRICS, etc.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Special
  • Economic
  • Cooperation

• She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Brave
  • Bored
  • Deserve