Conlon Quotes

#1. On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.

Edward Conlon

#2. Do you like being a cop?"
"I love it, when it doesn't suck, sir.

Edward Conlon

#3. Best friends always know when the other's lying.

Wendy Mass

#4. It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

Edward Conlon

#5. The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it.

S.A. Tawks

#6. Suspense doesn't always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.

Sandy Vaile

#7. Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.

Edward Conlon

#8. A man cannot directly choose his future.....but
he can directly choose his present ...so indirectly shape his future.

Dr Lloyd Magangeni

#9. Lieutenant Harry Kim was, without doubt, the most optimistic individual she had ever known. No matter how close the darkness came, his determination to overcome it and certainty that goodness would prevail was refreshing. Conlon

Kirsten Beyer

#10. FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands, beats egg white under her words and the whole thing rises like a dream. It's a love story for her people and for a time and place. Read it.

Alexandra Fuller

#11. You do not mean there is danger of peace?, cried Jack.

Patrick O'Brian

#12. Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it
and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Phyllis Bottome

#13. You are beyond worth and your potential to change is in your next thought.

Toni Sorenson

#14. HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

David Geffen

#15. I'm in charge of all this - I run this universe!

Eugene H. Peterson

#16. I stopped knowing what to fight against."
"May you find some measure of happiness in your surrender. May we all.

Kiersten White

#17. R.I.P.
Tom Conlon O'Rourke.
Not Dead, just Sleeping.

Spike Milligan

#18. Fortunately, there is a project that will create jobs, provide direct investment in our economy, and move us closer to our longstanding goal of becoming energy independent: the Keystone XL pipeline.

Kevin McCarthy

#19. In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a "well-rounded detective" was a jibe around his weight.

Edward Conlon

#20. FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.

Beverly Donofrio

#21. Compassion is the litmus test and culminating touchstone of a spirituality of Earth.

James Conlon

#22. I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them.

Edward Conlon

#23. The end of ourselves is the beginning of God

Carter Conlon

#24. We are accustomed to losing things we love and people we adore but that doesn't change the fact that loss hurts.

Abdullah Abu Snaineh

#25. Trees allow their old leaves to fall so they can then blossom.

Renee Rentmeester

#26. As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.

Lysette Anthony

#27. I had to agree with one ex-boyfriend of one crackhead complainant who'd gone missing, when he told me with disdain, 'This is a whole big bunch of unbelievable!

Edward Conlon

#28. Later that day when I passed the Admin lieutenant and the Sargeant standing by the Desk, I said casually, "I'm leaving too, Sarge."
"Okay," he said, and I kept on walking.

Edward Conlon