Emmie And J Quotes

#1. Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar, the stakes are high and there is no time to collect more information.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.

Noam Chomsky

#3. But the presence of the young woman had touched a lot of people there, and some were ready to rethink their lives.

Paulo Coelho

#4. Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow

Nora Roberts

#5. a great publicity is a high way to remote customers and a universal key to the gate of ignorance

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Delphine De Girardin

#7. I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended up with. There's this great Auden quote: "I look at what I write so I can see what I think."

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. A modern-day Thisbe, Bridget pressed her face and hands against the wall, possibly hoping that the blocks and paint between them would melt away.

Emmie White

#9. She was a magnificent creature created in a science lab, the bride of Frankenstein. He, of course, comprehended that he was the monster. Freddy was Frankenstein, the creator.

Emmie White

#10. One teacher recently retired with a half-million dollars after 30 years of working hard, caring, dedicating herself and totally immensing herself in the problems of the students. That gave her $50. The rest of the money came from the death of a rich uncle.

Milton Berle

#11. He smiled his barbarian's smile. "Keep looking at me like that, Emmie love, and I will be bothering you again in a trice.

Grace Burrowes

#12. She clung to the memories of her youth as if they were the only way she could save a piece of her soul from whatever it was she was about to face.

Emmie White

#13. My old chief taught me three lessons: Never believe anything you hear and only half of what you see. Never go into debt because you will never get out. And never pat yourself on the back because karma will bite you in the ass.
Karma, I think, meet ass.

David Macinnis Gill

#14. Well, I mean, if someone is going to kill my husband, I think it should be me. Don't you agree?"
I do indeed," Emmie said. "I made the same argument myself just a week ago.

Robert Bruce Stewart

#15. When snooty high school bitches grow up, their meanness is distilled into its purest, most lethal form," Emmie whispered fearfully. "Don't you watch Real Housewives?

Jayne Denker

#16. She wanted to tell him that she loved him, but she kept her convoluted and confused thoughts to herself. He was her light in the darkness, but she was unsure if it was actual love or a form of Stockholm syndrome.

Emmie White

#17. He wanted to crumple her up and toss her from his mind like a scrap piece of paper filled with nonsensical doodles or dissonant words that formed unbalanced rhymes. Yet, he refused throw her away.

Emmie White

#18. An egg would rendezvous with a sperm one not-so-romantic night in a petri-dish, and cellular division would begin under the watchful eye of some goggle-wearing geek.

Emmie White

#19. The ocean tosses up a thousand arms to embrace the storm that falls across her like a drunken sailor. His thunder slaps her thighs, his lighting piercing her waters.
They pound me between the hips and I begin to panic, knowing their passion will destroy me.

Terry Moore

#20. The horse is dead," she says and squeezes Soldier's hand. "From here we walk."
"Anyone ever told you you're sort of a creepy kid?" Odd Willie asks.
"All the damn time," Emmie tells him. "I don't bother keeping count anymore.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#21. There's the kind of camaraderie that comes from leaning on someone in battle, and it's powerful. It's not too hard to trust someone to want to keep you alive. But trusting someone to actually live with you, to walk beside you - that is a fragile, precious thing.

Emmie Mears

#22. I'd gotten someone killed.
The price people seem to pay for crossing my path.

Marie Lu

#23. Just because a relationship ends, does not mean it's not worth having.

Sara Mlynowski

#24. Her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason ...

W. Somerset Maugham

#25. Bridget did not budge, and her face was without expression. She sat, quietly defeated like a chess player who lost a career match in less than four moves.

Emmie White

#26. Yeah, a real nigga studies his woman. I

Zoya

#27. There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.

Richelle E. Goodrich