
“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Born at the Right Time
Song lyrics, The Rhythm of the Saints (1990)
“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“Evil is never truly strong, for it is born of fear.”
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 8
Context: Evil is never truly strong, for it is born of fear. Why did he fall so easily? Because he tested your strength and saw the possibility of death [... ] had he possessed true courage, he would have fought back. Instead he froze — and died.
Source: Thomas Paine From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 25 (p. 227)
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 5 : Issues and how to pick them
Context: Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time–and millions are doing nothing because it’s the best offer they’ve had this week. … It is for these people and many others that the Surprise Party is conceived and desecrated, founded upon the principle that everybody is just as good as anybody else, even though they aren’t quite so smart.
Rock and Roll Rebel.
Song lyrics, Bark at the Moon (1983)
1960s, Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)
As quoted in The Medical Record No. 674 (6 October 1883); also in And I Quote : The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham, p. 447
Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), Silver on the Tree (1977), Chapter 4 “Midsummer Day” (p. 54)