"Remake" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whole world to remake, if she could see it; work for another than she! For all is wrong, and gone out of joint; the inward spiritual, and the outward economical; head or heart, there is no soundness in it. As indeed, evils of all sorts are more or less of ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... occurred to her more than once that his bonds held him far more lightly than she was held by hers. And the prospect of marriage was now an absolute necessity if she was to endure her memories. Marriage alone could hallow and remake Joanna Godden. Sometimes, as love became less of a drug and a bewilderment, her thoughts awoke, and she would be overwhelmed by an almost incredulous horror at herself. Could this be Joanna Godden, who had turned away her dairy-girl for ...
— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith
... weight had grown beyond our strength to bear, Thy Love alone the woful thrall can break, Thy Love, reborn into this world of care, Alone can life remake. ...
— 'All's Well!' • John Oxenham
... laws held guiltless—could not shatter the tie. That he, blinded by hope, had hoped to remake a life already made, and had dared to masquerade before his own soul as a man free to come, to go, and free to love, could not alter what had been done. Back, far back of it all lay the deathless pact—for better or for worse. And nothing man might wish ...
— The Younger Set • Robert W. Chambers
... a large order—too large for statesmen. Two lovers underneath the Bough may remake the world, remold it nearer to the heart's desire—or come as near to it as possible; but not a gathering of political graybeards. For better or worse the world is made; all we can do is modify ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
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