T.R. Patrick Quotes
The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.
Do you know why they call this place the Rookery?" Elodin asked. I shook my head."Because it's where you go if you're a-ravin'." He smiled a wild smile. He laughed a terrible laugh.
I love that you're worried, ' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.
It all scares me, and it's all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next.
You don’t talk about how the job is going until the job is done, ” Loch said.
As incredible as it seemed, time kept moving forward for the rest of the world.The rest of the world that wasn't waiting.
The traditional Confucian structure that invoked ideals of perfect human virtue for harmony must incorporate the rule of law for the modern era.
So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it.
At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.
Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.
The history of the GDR journalism is a story of partisanship.
One should never expect anyone to reply to one's questions.
We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.
If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.
Commitment is a function of two things: clarity and buy-in
Wrong things never lead to success. If a man acts wrongly and succeeds, that is not the way. Without the Lethani there is no true success.
TODD!" I shout again -And he looks at me -And I hear my name in his Noise -And I know it -I know it in my heart -Right now -Todd Hewitt -There's nothing we can't do toge
Spackle!” Manchee barks, tho he’s too chicken to attack now that I’ve held back. “Spackle! Spackle! Spackle!”“Shut up, Manchee, ” I say.“Spack
He always felt embarrassed opening gifts in front of others, having to act out delight or surprise. He liked to peel off the paper slowly and consider the contents.
I can't give you the moon, ” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.
The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction.
The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always, she said. OK then, he said.
One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll hate you.
This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.
Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good.
I’m of the camp that if an angel tells you one thing, and a man in ruby slippers tells you another, you go with the angel.
Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn’t be.
They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.
It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.
Marriage is the deep deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.
It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.
