Quotes about saving page 5
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.”
Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow
Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
“brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms.”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
Marcus Sedgwick (1968) British writer and illustrator
Source: Midwinterblood
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
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Popular version of the first sentence: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it."
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Source: Minority Report
Jane Langton (1922–2018) Novelist, children's writer
“Sometimes it's braver not to fight. Protect them, and save your vengeance for another day.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: Raven's Shadow
“I was exhausted. Fighting to save the universe will do that.”
D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer
“The life you save may very well be your own.”
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Source: 1890s, The Mountains of California (1894), chapter 5: The Passes <!-- Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 328 -->
Context: Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of civilization. Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action. Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Variant: You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you?"
The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. "Sure, do you have one handy?
Source: Magic Slays
Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
James Cameron (1954) Canadian film director
Rose
Titanic (1997)
Context: A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson, and that he saved me in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory.
“The finger cut, to save the hand.”
Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Tell me, is he always really rude, or does he save that for mundanes?”
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Source: City of Bones
“Jericho."
"Mac."
"Thank you for saving my life. Again.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Bloodfever
“He saved your life,” Clary pointed out.
“Details,” said Simon dismissively.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Source: City of Bones
“Do anything, save to lie down and die!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne book The Scarlet Letter
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.”
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Charles Bukowski book Women
Variant: You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Source: Women
“We save the world by being alive ourselves.”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
John Cheever (1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer
Entry in his journal before his last public appearance, the ceremony at which he received the National Medal for Literature, quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).
“With our love, we could save the world.”
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
"War Shrines"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
" Dust of Snow http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173526" (1923) <br class="br">General sources
“People don't save other people. People save themselves.”
Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot
Source: The Marriage Plot
“Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.”
Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer
“Thanks again for saving me. Someday, I’ll save you too.”
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
“If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?”
Lois McMaster Bujold book Diplomatic Immunity
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002)
“And that's how the Peacock saved the Chameleon”
Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
“Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.”
John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian
Sermon 50 "The Use of Money" in The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M. (1840) edited by John Emory, Vol. I, p. 446
Popularly paraphrased as:
Make all you can,
Save all you can,
Give all you can.
General sources
Carl Sagan book Pale Blue Dot
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 8, Supplemental image at randi.org http://www.randi.org/images/122801-BlueDot.jpg <br class="br">Context: Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. <br class="br">Context: Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.<br>The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.<br>Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.<br>The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.<br>It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
D.H. Lawrence book Studies in Classic American Literature
Studies in Classic American Literature (1923)
“Surely the earth can be saved
by all the people
who insist
on love.”
Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist
Source: Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
“The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to reach out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.
