W.D. Frank Quotes
The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.
A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one.
a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.
Make a life while making a living.
When you make a promise, you’re not giving your word in erasable pencil, you’re inscribing your commitment in indelible ink.
He feels her heart race madly against his own and for a second he thinks it’s finally happened, he’s come alive.
Actions Matter: Do As I Do. Not As I Say.
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero
He was painfully aware of the fact that he was in his underwear. Not the best situation in which to fight people.
Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.
We will not run, " Paul said. "We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done.
No one has the right to force his or her way of life on anyone else.
We can’t expect others to abandon their values any more than we would forsake our own.
Failing one time — or even several times — doesn’t make you a failure any more than losing one game makes you a loser.
If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.
Most of the fear that spoils our life comes from attacking difficulties before we get to them.
Sweetest li'l feller everybody knows Dunno what to call him but he's mighty lak' a rose Lookin' at his mammy wid eyes so shiny blue Mek' you think that Heav'n is comin' clost ter you.
There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.
With them I gladly shared my all and learned the great truth that where God guides He provides.
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.
After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.
The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
No man can be satisfied with his attainment although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.
The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means time influence and educational advantages but what he will do with the things he has.
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance ' and I have found his words true.
Father giving advice to son: Never do anything once around the house that you don't want to do for the rest of your life.
And remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.
The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him and when he is compelled to exist as it were by his own inner light.
Out of the scabbard of the night By God's hand drawn Flashes his shining sword of light And lo the dawn!
