Gilded Age New York Quotes

#1. I cast my lot in with a soldier, and where he was, was home to me.

Martha Summerhayes

#2. Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run - but it could just as easily cost you everything.

Joanna Shupe

#3. I just had an idea that went right over my head.

Lawrence Welk

#4. All that is necessary for evil to triumph, said Burke, is for good men to do nothing; and most good men nowadays can be relied upon to do precisely that. Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

Theodore Dalrymple

#5. I've always felt comfortable amongst the horrors. I married your uncle Gerard, after all.

Melika Dannese Lux

#6. Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

Candida Martinelli

#7. A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said.

Peter S. Beagle

#9. I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

Marianne Williamson

#10. The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

Jamie Wyeth

#11. I am desperate and vulnerable ... I am always terrified ... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

Faye Dunaway

#12. Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.

Alice Greczyn

#13. The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.

Cathy Guisewite

#14. We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

Robert Breault

#15. Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#16. She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)

Candida Martinelli

#17. Forgiveness is letting go and letting go is painful. It's not something we do for others; it's something we do for ourselves.

Jewel E. Ann

#18. We're not earthly beings any more ... we're cosmic beings.

Eden Ahbez

#19. All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we'd try to write shows, we'd jokingly call the word documents "Hit Show." We just couldn't crack the code.

Jake M. Johnson