Edna Buchanan Quotes

#1. The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

Edna Buchanan

#2. To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

Edna Buchanan

#3. Christ is a prince that loves to see his people thrive and grow rich under his government. This

William Gurnall

#4. Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worthwhile. That and the anticipation. It's addictive, because you never know when it will happen, but when it does, nothing in the world is as important.

Edna Buchanan

#5. Our churches are being destroyed by gossip. What is it about us that wants to hear all the garbage?

Neil T. Anderson

#6. Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and ... you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Edna Buchanan

#7. You can't be what you can't see.

Edna Buchanan

#8. Where I come from these days, anybody who isn't seeing a therapist needs to.

Edna Buchanan

#9. Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it.

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#10. A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

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#11. I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

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#12. You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

George Eliot

#13. Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

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#14. Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

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#15. Friends are the family we choose for ourselves

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#16. An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

Ezra Taft Benson

#17. I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.

Edna Buchanan

#18. Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You

Robert A. Heinlein

#19. If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

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#20. You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

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#21. Friends are family you choose.

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#22. True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

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#23. Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

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#24. Life is a death-defying experience.

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#25. If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

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#26. In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.

Edna Buchanan