Excerpted Passages Quotes

#1. Her dilemma - the eternal human dilemma - is that she wants a chance to revisit her choices with full knowledge of the future.

Laura Lippman

#2. Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet?
Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure?
Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet-
Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.

John Ruskin

#3. You must learn that nobody can control everything in the flow of life," said Dart. "Control is something we all strive for - but you will find, as you become more experienced with magic, that you gain more control over yourself by releasing your need to control life.

A. Grace Martin

#4. It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

Colleen McCullough

#5. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics.

George Orwell

#6. Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had believed in the possibility of a substitute. But there was a time when I had tried to find a substitute, and it hadn't worked.

Graham Greene

#7. We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

Al Gore

#8. The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

Cathy Hughes

#9. At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.

Henry Hill

#10. When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music.

Ellen Hollman

#11. Sometimes, in order to follow one's heart, one must do the wrong thing. Now, I'm not absolving anyone of their actions; you have to be responsible for your actions, sick or well, you have to be, you just have to be. All of us are accountable.

Craig Ferguson

#12. You can cower," she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. "But I will stand.

Gwenn Wright