Bette Lord quotes

Bette Lord quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.”
-- Bette Lord

#Time Quotes #Flower Quotes #Plant Quotes
“If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.”
-- Bette Lord

#Waiting Quotes #World Quotes #Hell Quotes
“prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.”
-- Bette Lord

#Fate Quotes #Prophecy Quotes
“The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.”
-- Bette Lord

#Wish Quotes #Age Quotes #Youth Quotes
“In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.”
-- Bette Lord

#Hands Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Water Quotes
“to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.”
-- Bette Lord

#Favors Quotes #Refuse Quotes #Uncivilized Quotes
“you must not use wood to put out the fire.”
-- Bette Lord

#Fire Quotes #Use Quotes #Woods Quotes
“Principles have a way of yielding to power.”
-- Bette Lord

#Principles Quotes #Way Quotes
“Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.”
-- Bette Lord

#Chinese Quotes #Religion Quotes #Sophisticated Quotes
“A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.”
-- Bette Lord

Source : Bette Lord (1984). “In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson”, HarperCollins Publishers

#Secret Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Chores Quotes
“What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul?”
-- Bette Lord

#Dream Quotes #Pain Quotes #Reality Quotes

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