Mary Stewart
Mary Stewart
ambitious fear likely men noticed slightest threat
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in powerthey fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
men power ambitious
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
men granted get-to-know-me
I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.
men every-man seeds
Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…
men soldier navy
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
adding drop problem
I would have no problem with 'Stewart Mid-Hudson Airport' or something like that, adding a geographical portion. But I don't want them to drop the name.
scared
I was so scared I don't feel I have any entrails anymore.
agencies letting people trick
There will always be the agencies out there, ... The trick is letting the people know about them.
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
law lightning mills
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
art garden plant
To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.
art powerful past
the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.
horse moon white
...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon.
fear laughter anger
There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.