Bret Maverick Quotes

#1. The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.

James Garner

#2. Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#3. The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.

Dominique Moceanu

#4. You are asking us to lie, Colonel?"
"I am asking you to omit. Surely, amidst the ... the infinite gradations of human venality, that particular sin ranks low." The old man kneaded the folds of his throat. "What happened out there belongs out there. The jungle has it; let the jungle keep it ...

Louis Bayard

#5. I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance.

Steve Maraboli

#6. I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.

Mark Helprin

#7. In the old days, the general's ribbons / & medals rainbowed across his chest, / & if he were interrogating himself, / by now, blood would be on the walls.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#8. Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#9. Before, I simply stepped off the ground, but with you - I'm in the stratosphere. You leave me breathless.

Addison Moore

#10. Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

Paul Gauguin

#11. Knowing God results in every other kind of understanding.

Anonymous

#12. It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

Farrah Fawcett