C. G. D. Roberts Quotes

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.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?" She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. "You hardly ever make the jump.

I love you. I don't know when it started, years ago or weeks. But I know my heart's lost to you, and I wouldn't have it another way. You're what I want, all there is of you.

Why would I kill someone I don't know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and havent't killed any of them?

The simple and most complex answer is love.

You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.

Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.

You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.

Dolls are like small dead people.

Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?

- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.

Salvation has nothing to do with your religious identity, where you were baptized or where you are a member. It has everything to do with if you have faith in Jesus Christ.

We are all a little bit stronger than we think we are.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

The incredible stability in inflation is really a novel human experience. And the inflation is being the result of money.

The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.

What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?

This is nothing. The last couple of batches of [Hillary Clinton's] emails have revealed exactly nothing. Now, who is pushing this notion that there was a quid pro quo in the State Department?

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

Powerful people have no regrets.

Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.

Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out

It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.