Dead Man's Hand Quotes

#1. Truth or dare ... truth ain't fair.
Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)

Belinda McBride

#2. It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! ... Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#3. It took me years and cost me countless thousands of dollars in lost business before I finally learned that it doesn't pay to argue, that it is much more profitable and much more interesting to look at things from the other person's viewpoint and try to get that person saying 'yes, yes.

Dale Carnegie

#4. You only get married the first time once. There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence

Carrie Vaughn

#5. In a throne above them sat a dead man with the head of a wolf. He wore an iron crown and held a leg of lamb in one hand as a king might hold a scepter,

George R R Martin

#6. I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live man or a dead woman, I'll be fine. And that, hand on heart, is unlikely to happen.

Steve Coogan

#7. On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

David Warner

#8. It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

Bruce Boxleitner

#9. I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.

Jerry Weintraub

#10. In panic, I held
his hand in place. Move another inch, Hunter, and you're a dead man.

Piper Shelly

#11. ...people do not want to hear that aliens are just like us. They want wise angels and noble savages.

James L. Cambias

#12. The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Skul-man!' he exclaimed as he rushed forward to shake his hand. 'Last I heard you were trapped on a dead world overrun by evil trans-dimensional superfiends!'
Skulduggery nodded. 'Just got back.

Derek Landy

#14. Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.

George Eliot

#15. We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

Matthew Fox

#16. Arya lifted her gaze from the dead man and his dead dog. Jaqen H'ghar was leaning up against the side of the Wailing Tower. When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek.

George R R Martin

#17. God is a man of such perfect, flawless character that he only watches over everyone equally
the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor
and never plays favorites or reaches His hand out to any of them. Oh, what a wonderful God. He can just drop dead.

Yukako Kabei

#18. ... What the hell happened? I keep replaying everything and returning to the point where you held a dead man's head in your hand and a sharp bloody knife in the other. That wasn't the Katie I knew from college.

Mary Abshire

#19. If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form

Will Smith

#20. Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

John Webster

#21. This girl is destroying me. A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would try to shoot me dead for kissing her. A girl who ran off with another man just to get away from me. Of course this is the girl I would fall for. I close a hand over my mouth. I am losing my mind.

Tahereh Mafi