C. G. D. Roberts Quotes
Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.
You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.
Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself.
Being an actress, it's hard to publish things without people thinking everything is autobiographical.
I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less.
What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.
Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.
If you don't ever get out of your comfort zone you will never make it to the end zone!.
We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.
Much of the stress you experience may be created by recognizing a problem and doing nothing about it.
Every hour of every day, at every level in every organization, influential people succeed and non-influential people don't.
It can be annoying not to know who you are, where you came from, or what you're doing. To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing.
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.
A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.
nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.
People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.
A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.
Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.
If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.
