J. A. London Quotes
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....
Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.
He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.
He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)...
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.
Cam and I just broke up."Cam laughed, hugging me even tighter into his side.I huffed, trying to wriggle free. "What are you doing?""Getting back together with you.
He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.
I'm leaving the door partly open, " he says as he follows Tegan. "You scream if you need me."Once he is outside, Richard says, "He does realize that if he hears your scream, it's already too late.
The coolest thing about fandom is the friendships made along the way with people who share your passions.
Why were kings cross? Maybe their trains were late! Some say warrior Queen Boudica was buried under platform 8.
In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.
Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.
BELINDA: People say you shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. I say tell the truth. The dead will know what God will tell them. So start talking.
SOFIA: We’re not meant to be good and perfect. You know who lives longer? Married couples who enjoy under the sheets time alone. Enjoy the fun, but understand there must be an end goal.
MASSIMO: I will not let you give me up out of some misguided duty to God....You and I do not need to be alone to show devotion to God. Misery does not show true faith.
PAUL: ...We’re a very close family. We don’t take kindly to people playing Daily Mail on our family for no good reason.
Being in the shadows is no way to live, but sometimes its' the only way to find out who you are.
One person can only lose so much before he starts to realize that he's not strong enough to lose any more.
Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly altering the place where they were set.
... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370)
In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.
In his last days on this earth, he’d wanted to know if this was all there was.
I realized that life doesn't work that way-that just because you have dreams and make plans, it doesn't mean that they will come true.
If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.
Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.
A man who offers to cook after he's seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen.
There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.
Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.
He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?
Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.
For some reason, I thought Victor could heal that wound better than anyone else. It's strange to think that this vampire, the embodiment of all my hatred, could act like a suture.
She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.
When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.
To be angry at the gods is to scream at the stars. Even if they hear, they will not stop shining.
Luke's eyes were on a government position in DC, while all Natalie wanted was help make the world a sweeter place.
You have no idea what I'm thinking, " he said. "No idea what I'm feeling --- about you." He walked to her, reached out and touched her cheek. "But we both need to find out.
We're not thirteen and this isn't a locker room." "Fine, fine. Just remember, I had to watch Dr. Phil with Mom for two months after I had knee surgery. I'm practically a psychiatrist.