House Quotes
In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.
Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.
The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end.
Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.
My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.
Automatically, like all healthy, normal beings, I deny the existence of horror...
There's a queer streak in human natures. Men come back to places for secret reasons, for feelings they cannot resist.'More than men come back, ” I said.
Ben knew that no matter how far you run, you're still yourself when you get there.
Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night.
When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.
My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?
When there is alignment and understanding, it is much easier to navigate forward together, moving in and out of agreement.
Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!
... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...
Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.
Bob says hello, " He told the stars.The Argo II sailed into the night.
Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--yourold self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.
Owl, " said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest--and when I say thinking I mean thinking--you and I must do it.
When he told it, I remembered. He handed me my past like… like a spear. But I do not know if I should take it. Is it still mine, if I do not want it?
I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories in amongst the dark.
When she remembered a summer it would be this one. When she remembered love it would be his.
Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories.
Faith, that's another word for ignorance, isn't it? I never understood how people could be so proud of believing in something with no proof at all. Like that's an achievement.
I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate.
If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.
Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn't it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah's father."- Nell
The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites.
I watch the sky progress through its morning paces, the light turning from rose to saffron as the sun ascends, its rays like ribbons tangling in the tops of trees.
If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.
After all, hadn't she been the one to pursue him? And Madame Dupuy had done it with a vigor that most women would have been too ashamed to display.
There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam.
While the big events of our lives create the impetus for change, it is the moment-by- moment choices that mold and shape us.
...everything defiled and degraded. What cannot man live through! Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.
What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.
No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.
The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.
A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.
And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?
JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.
You are the stories you tell, whatever their basis in fact or experience. It’s who you are.