J. E. B. Stuart Quotes

I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

I tried to always include my children in everything that I did. I traveled with them, I brought them with me to work, I tried to balance it between work and being a mother as best as I could.

I sleep in the pajamas almost every single night, if not, the nightgowns.

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes demands.

The whole world can believe in you but that won't mean a thing if you don't believe in yourself too.

If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first.

While fighting for acceptance, we must remember that our own self worth is not determined by whether or not we get it.

Forget the shoes, forget the mile long walk... just stop judging each other.

No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.

To be second with one game to go - you can't ask for more.

If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender for the presidential nomination, he would not walk away right now.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

Learning to charge properly is a vital key to abundance. Affirm that you will never devalue yourself by charging less than what you feel you are worth.

The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds.

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.

But leave us some magic in the world. Leave us some mystery to enjoy.

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

The top golfers in the world are like Formula One cars when it comes to their swings.

Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring.

The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

You tell anyone that I cried, and I'll cut your liver out." "Do you even know where a human liver resides?"[...] "Yes," she said, and punched him in it.

She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.

Jesus, woman!" he snapped. "When did we have to become Romeo and Juliet?

If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days.

She raised her head finally. He looked the same, but then, he always did. She'd seem him kill twice, and he betrayed no reaction at all. He was a monster, not even human. But he was her monster.

And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me.

Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?

I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.

Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.