Colonel John Ripley Quotes

#1. It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

Merle Shain

#2. Silence is the language of inertia.

Margaret Heffernan

#3. And blessed are they who have learned the rhythms of the invisible clock whose hours and minutes are immense and soundless. The great clock of the seasons and the years, and the small clock of the intuition, whose timing is guided by the heart.

Josephine Winslow Johnson

#4. Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool ...

Paul Gauguin

#5. He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

Raymond Chandler

#6. I felt like I'd fallen into the rabbit hole, and warnings were firing off left and right. Something primal inside me recognized that I was surrounded by predators.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

Ted Cruz