H. C. Bailey Quotes
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet I go.
A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
I see their souls and I hold them in my hands and because I love them they weigh nothing.
In America an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought his life a breath of God.
After a debauch of thundershower the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.
There are two kinds of talents man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent you just touch it up once in a while.
Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.
Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but that I couldn't save them from themselves.
Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.
More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.
