W.J. Raymond Quotes
It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.
Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were born.
It was then I realized that no one can escape his age, and that my dangerous contempt had melted like ice the moment someone was kind enough to show they cared about me, and in a way that suited me.
There was a bright flash of brilliant white light, like the midday summer sun reflecting off of a freshly cleaned mirror.And then it was gone.
Yes, ” said Talon, his voice the hiss of a coiled serpent.
From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.
The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut.
But dying is for the sweetest ones. And he remembers sweetness, when life was sweet, and sweetly he was given that other lifetime.
A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.
I lifted him out. I held him. I held that half of him.
She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.
In her unworldly voice she thanked them for finally understanding her. She reminded me of a female pirate captain alone on the deck of her sinking ship.
The only thing I hate worse than a hero is a stupid hero.
He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, ‘Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.
His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.
Tragic to kill a friend in battle by mistake when there are so many enemies to go around.
It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people.
he reminded himself as he turned another corner — glancing automatically into the shadows to see if anyone lurked there — the deed was the thing, not the praise.
If you are seeking creative ideas go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
In some remote regions of Islam it is said a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.
Some of the papers presented at today's medical meeting tell us what we already know but in a much more complicated manner.
A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will it is reported raise her skirt to cover her face.
It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.
The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding and eternity looms ahead?
Next to being shot at and missed nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution once revealed must seem to be inevitable.
Remember this: of all the commodities men trade in, information is the most valuable by far.
Obsession is hard work and can only be performed at full speed for short periods of time.
Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.
Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. “ ‘Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.
The most challenging roles were Disney's 'A Christmas Carol' and 'Mars Needs Moms' because they were both motion capture, so there was a lot of physical work involved.
For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.
God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.
I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.
