Albin Quotes

#1. Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition.

Camille Paglia

#2. How do you swallow the truth after a diet of lies?

Gennifer Albin

#3. The space between fear and anticipation is a waking nightmare of recrimination and doubt. I'm perpetually trapped in the knowledge of my own inferiority.

Gennifer Albin

#4. That no matter how good their intentions, with absolute power comes corruption.

Gennifer Albin

#5. Miss me?" he asks.
"It hasn't been that long," I remind him.
"I'm sure it's felt like a lifetime," he says, running his eyes down me. "Adelice, you are looking ... malnourished."
"Cormac, you're looking overdressed.

Gennifer Albin

#6. Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.

Dale E. Jones

#7. I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.

Manuel L. Quezon

#8. It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Stephen Chbosky

#9. Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. So first of all, I'm sorry for leaving you. I wish I could prove to you that I fought to stay.
...
And finally Adelice, don't be sad for me. I'm free, and it is my sincerest wish that you will be as well.

Gennifer Albin

#11. Some things don't cange no mattered what's happened. even things that fade with time and distance aren't really ever lost.

Gennifer Albin

#12. I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing that you can do because of the ways that the real and the unreal weave together to create something that feels more true than anything.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. I have a thing against reality shows. I think they are so fake. I think they are produced before they begin. I think people know where they're going, what they're going to say, what the situation is. These things just don't happen and you know that.

Regis Philbin

#14. That's the nice thing about relationships," Liam said.
"What?"
"There's two people involved. If you fuck up, I'll be around to help you back on your feet.

Gennifer Albin

#15. Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

David McCullough

#16. We call them kilts, and we wear them so we can let our enormous cocks breathe.

Gennifer Albin

#17. I knew we could never hide how special you are, he murmured against my hair.

Gennifer Albin

#18. How many nights are we here?" Cassie asked. "Six? So we need what, 20 bottles?

Gennifer Albin

#19. I just wanted a change. My hair started hurting my back, so I went to my hairdresser and said 'Take it off.' And I'm delighted with the results.

Sarah Brightman

#20. Cormac's eyes eyes narrow. "She wasn't half the Spinster you are, Adelice."
"I'm half the person she was," I say with a shrug, barely keeping my voice steady. "So I guess it evens out.

Gennifer Albin

#21. I asked once why we kept it if it was useless, and she told me that remembering the past is never useless.

Gennifer Albin

#22. We took our eye off the ball as a company.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#23. The Stormy life can be braved
Only by the heart's
Sunny meditations.

Sri Chinmoy

#24. Jost's lips crush into mine, and I reach out without thinking and pull him closer against me. My hand tangles in his hair, and the web shimmers around us. The rest of the world is perfectly still, but we are in motion, crumbling into one another.

Gennifer Albin

#25. Things don't always look as they seem.

Jodi Picoult

#26. One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.

Margaret Chase Smith

#27. Take the happiness you can, even if it's only a little.

Gennifer Albin

#28. In silence we can discover who we really are and find peace.

Colin Albin

#29. You're at my table," Cormac whispers in my ear.
"My dream come true," I reply.
"I'm sorry?" he says in a voice that dares me to repeat myself.
"I said, lead the way.

Gennifer Albin

#30. Transform the earth, not patch up the old plan.

George Herbert Clarke

#31. I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.

Ken Kesey

#32. Some people have too large an impact on our lives for us to imagine we can forget them.

Gennifer Albin

#33. Cormac and I have an understanding."
Erik raises an eyebrow. Clearly he's got the wrong idea.
"Don't worry. It's a death-threat thing.

Gennifer Albin

#34. The world might collapse into the whole space and time if you actually managed to act sexy at your current hotness level, he said.

Gennifer Albin

#35. Time slows as his words light upon me, but in my chest something bursts into a million fragments that melt back together instantly, remaking me into someone entirely new.

Gennifer Albin

#36. The older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

Paul Hoffman

#37. As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.

Saint Basil