Antrobus House Quotes

#1. The real truth lies below the surface.

Bohdi Sanders

#2. The book was written to embody an ideal. It was given to people who already had momentum in doing what was right. That was my mistake. Before any of this can work, our people need to have a minimum level of honor and dignity.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.

Joseph C. Aldrich

#4. I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; with them, forgive yourself. There may be hope for me yet.

Anthony Ervin

#5. A gurgling chuckle came from behind him; Jonas had heard it often enough to know that it signified something as close to laughter as the creature ever got. Yet you believe those things won't come if you serve your Lord? You know what they say about the road to Hell, Judas.

Kaine Andrews

#6. I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.

Collis Potter Huntington

#7. Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.

Sefi Atta

#9. On Collateral Damage: "Every limb lost, every hovel burned, every wife left husbandless, and every child orphaned created ripples of anger and resentment. Create enough of them, and we'll one day wind up with a wave that will wash us off the map.

Chris Holm

#10. You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#11. The wrong thing being?" asks Halwaz.
"Closing up their source, of course," you say, in a tone which implies, "Did you think I was merely talking about their sacrificing small fuzzy animals in an attempt to bring back ancient evil gods?

Mike Reeves-McMillan

#12. We often throw rocks not realizing that they're going to land somewhere.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

Emma Lazarus

#14. Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

John Eisenhower

#15. If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

Ben Jonson