Fugitive Pieces Memorable Quotes

#1. I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.

Elvis Costello

#2. For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

William Carlos Williams

#3. We must do right and risk the consequences.

Rick Perry

#4. Practically every woman in town makes a showing at Tucker's after a Jake sighting. I feel like I am watching the National Geographic Channel on mating rituals in the wild.

L.A. Fiore

#5. The world, in spite of oppression, is a beautiful place.

Assata Shakur

#6. I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Thomas Love Peacock

#7. Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore.

Geneen Roth

#8. Jump, when they say, and ask, how high? It is the only way to truly fit in. And who would want to be any different?

Amy L. Orr

#9. I want you to remember that - it's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises." Etta

Alexandra Bracken

#10. Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.

Charlaine Harris

#12. As he leans over to kiss me good night, I do not regret having graduated from the amorous sprints of our youths. Marriage is a long-distance course, and reading aloud is a kind of romantic Gatorade formulated to invigorate the occasionally exhausted racers.

Anne Fadiman

#13. If what you're doing isn't working, change it.

Phil McGraw

#14. I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

Elaine Stritch

#15. All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.

Carl Schmitt