Quotes
Authors
Laurie R. King

"Stop it!' He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once, I was taken and suffered for it. Please, my dear wife, believe me, this is not the same situation...'...I turned back to Holmes and hissed, 'If you're wrong, I shall be extremely angry with you.' Then O kissed him hard on the lips, more threat than affection, and let him step back into his cell...'However, Russ? I think that, all in all, given the choice, I prefer you with the hair and without the moustache."

-- Laurie R. King

#Taken Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.”

Source : Nancy Kress (2009). “Steal Across the Sky”, p.12, Macmillan
“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”
“No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.”
“Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food, and time donated to Catholic charities should not be misread as a sign for success for volunteerism, but rather a desperate attempt to feed the hungry people when others have abandoned their responsibility.”
“There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?”
“Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.”
“Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.”

Source : Frank Norris (2008). “The Octopus”, p.838, Book Jungle
“In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.”

You may also like: