Americo Paredes Quotes

#1. Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.

Adam Derek Scott

#3. Their country! There you are. Their filthy lies are all over you already. I was born here. My father was born here and so was my grandfather and his father before him. And then they come, they come and take it, steal it and call it theirs.

Americo Paredes

#4. That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

Chester W. Nimitz

#5. And finally, my head pressed into the pillow, I cried, because my life suddenly seemed so much darker and more complicated than I could ever have imagined, and I wished I could go back ...

Jojo Moyes

#6. Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

James Payn

#7. The "do-it-yourself" rage is spreading everywhere, and people are being told that to be happy all they have to do is think "happy thoughts." Such thoughts might cheer us, but they will never change us.

Billy Graham

#8. In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

George MacDonald

#9. Over the years, I've always had one Labrador and usually two. I've had some great dogs, and I've had some dogs that didn't work out. I found them good homes and gave them away.

Bud Grant

#10. An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.

Orson Pratt

#11. Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

Francois Lelord

#12. She shook her head and almost laughed. 'My reaction was a little stronger than 'crap,' Rose. Do you have any idea what you've done?

Richelle Mead

#13. I don't really care that much about being a matinee idol.

Casey Affleck

#14. At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.

Bennie Thompson