Gale Gand Quotes

#1. There are no second-place finishers - you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser - nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.

Jamie Smith

#2. When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless outside the language I was speaking, building simple sentences with the blocks I'd memorized, not communicating through a fluid medium.

Ben Lerner

#3. You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

Emily Bronte

#4. Another ten points from Gryffindor," said Snape. "I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.

J.K. Rowling

#5. Lounging indolently in a black silk robe which was loosely tied at the front and which appeared to conceal nothing more than bare skin ... she made a conscious effort not to stare at the bare legs with their sprinkling of dark hair ... was he even wearing underwear? she thought

Cathy Williams

#6. You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.

Lillian Hellman

#7. I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits.

Ketch Secor

#8. Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and their leaders to accomplish their mission in the chaos of war. Recent incidents of sexual assault and sexual harassment demonstrate that we have violated that trust.

Raymond T. Odierno

#9. The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.

Thomas Nagel

#10. They studied the way the world
changed at morning and dusk and imagined how the sun might fall on the skin of a goddess.

Chris Bohjalian

#11. I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.

Hunter Parrish

#12. The moderns, then, after they have abolished slavery, have three prejudices to contend against, which are less easy to attack and far less easy to conquer than the mere fact of servitude: the prejudice of the master, the prejudice of the race, and the prejudice of color.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#13. I've got a system." He reached under a stack on the left corner of his desk, pulled out a file.
"It's like the magician's tablecloth trick," she commented. "Nicely done."
"Want to see me pull a rabbit out of my hat?

Nora Roberts

#14. God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting ...

Steven Curtis Chapman

#15. You create what you defend against.

Gautama Buddha