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I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.
Well, you know what the Fulham Road's like. If your top-hat blows off into it, it has about as much chance as a rabbit at a dogshow.
He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.
It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a bargain.
Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.
Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies.
Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.
She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.
No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!
...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.
In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.
When you're alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking's for later, when talking's all there is that's left.
Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.
I have friends with post-traumatic stress - friends with post-traumatic stress who are, you know, highly successful, capable people.
It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.
Claire signed. "Go ahead. And thanks. Oh, and be careful?" "Please. I am the queen of careful. Also, princess of punk fabulousness."
All right," he said. "Since you ask so nicely." "I wasn't asking." "I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it clear.
Don’t,” Michael said. It was soft, and it was a warning, through and through. “You try to hurt her again and I’ll pull your arm off.
There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.
To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.
Like when that man was running down Broadway stark naked and we all had to eat in the cafeteria while the police tried to catch him.
You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.
Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.
I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.
In the moment you ask, and believe and know you already have it in the unseen, the entire Universe shifts to bring it into the seen.
You have the ability to give so much to the world by emitting feelings of love and well-being, despite what is happening around you.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.
Green darners never attack people, but they have been seen bringing down hummingbirds. They are the Bengal tigers of the microworld.
Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.
In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.
Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.
...then we went skinny dippin' and did things that frighten the fish... Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias.
Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.
After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.
Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.
Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm.