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May Quotes - Page 121

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

"Farrah Fawcett Fought for Privacy While Battling Cancer" by Sharyn Alsonfi, Anna Wild, Kelly Hagan, Imaeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. May 12, 2009.

One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.

Ernest Bramah (1936). “The Kai Lung Omnibus”

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida M. Black (2009). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948”

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “Complete Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs: 70+ Adventure Classics & Science Fiction Novels (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Chronicles, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Moon Trilogy, The Venus Series, Westerns, Lost World Novels, Fantasy Classics, Historical Novels and more”, p.2185, e-artnow

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.61, Hot Key Books

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

Dorothy Day (2010). “All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day”, Ohio University Center for International Studies

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”