Captain Hastings Quotes

#1. Can I finish my blasted story? We'll get to supernatural kindergarten later.

John Corwin

#2. If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one can work with for the future, rather than making nostalgic images to record something that will later become lost.

Thomas Struth

#3. If only the last dozen years were just a dream my younger self was having, how wonderful that would be.

Inio Asano

#4. The man without a chin, no stamina, dead man, broken man, whatever. On your way to the top, you always get some criticism. Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

Wladimir Klitschko

#5. Now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

Helen Westley

#6. I don't want to write about it at all.
I want, you see, to think about it as little as possible. Hercule Poirot was dead - and with him died a good part of Arthur Hastings.

Agatha Christie

#7. Meteorologist see perfect in strange things, and the meshing of three completely independent weather systems to form a hundred-year event is one of them. My God, thought Case, this is the perfect storm.

Sebastian Junger

#8. Only the broken heart has the ghost of a chance to grieve, to forgive, to long, to transform.
Christina Baldwin, author of Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, 1990. Used with author's permission

Judith-Victoria Douglas

#9. An older generation, chastened by one depression, is afraid to be optimistic; and a younger generation, accustomed to security, is inexperienced at being pessimistic.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#10. don't see what this has to do with us." I say back, "Does everything have to be about you? Can you not project yourself outside yourself? Can you not take on another's life for your own benefit?

Richard Ford

#11. Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.

Dalai Lama

#12. I THINK NOT. I WASN'T CUT OUT TO BE A FATHER, AND CERTAINLY NOT A GRANDAD. I HAVEN'T GOT THE RIGHT KIND OF KNEES.

Terry Pratchett

#13. I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

Sophocles

#14. The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future.

Junior Seau

#15. Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

Alfred A. Montapert