Guilin Quotes

#1. I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

William Howard Taft

#2. The redhead shrugs. She doesn't care. And neither should Nessa. Not if she wants to live.

Peadar O'Guilin

#3. This sounded the death knell of small family businesses, soon to be followed by the disappearance of the individual entrepreneur, gobbled up one by one by the increasingly hungry ogre of capitalism, and drowned by the rising tide of large companies.

Emile Zola

#4. She was pregnant, of course: pregnant women carried out all the Tribe's sacred rituals.

Peadar O'Guilin

#5. Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing.

Peadar O'Guilin

#6. There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every surface, as if in this mass of people a man could be so lonely as to want to speak to the buildings.

Peadar O'Guilin

#7. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

Sheri Reynolds

#8. It was as though their life, thought Frances, were being mercilessly spooled back on to a reel; or as if, one by one, the stitches that had fastened them together were being unpicked.

Sarah Waters

#9. I've hated some of them too. Most of them sometimes. And they do think differently, but that's a good thing, isn't it? A hand isn't a f-foot, but I need them both to hunt.

Peadar O'Guilin

#10. If Britney Spears can party it up in Vegas with one of her boys and go get married on a whim and annul her marriage the next day, why can't a loving same sex couple tie the knot?

Brendon Ayanbadejo

#11. Whatever the weather I went out and wandered, and now I wandered with K.; I introduced him to my solitude and he deepened it without disturbance.

Garth Greenwell

#12. In my opinion - which is as good as yours and anybody else's - truth depends on the point of view, on the subjective reality of the observer, and on certain conditions, such as time, place, and the will to be done.

Nema

#13. The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#14. She has suffered enough horror to realize how fragile happiness is, how eager the universe is to take it away.

Peadar O'Guilin

#15. His stutter didn't like the idea of wooing and silenced any attempts to broach the subject.

Peadar O'Guilin

#16. The Beautiful Gene.

Jacky Colliss Harvey

#17. She says, "I'm going to live. And nobody's going to stop me." She believes every word of it.

Peadar O'Guilin

#18. The two brothers looked so alike now and their faces seemed to ripple under the weight of powerful emotions. Hatred, love, violence and fear. The crowd stepped back to form a circle, as though they might be caught between falling buildings.

Peadar O'Guilin

#19. You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Carlos Ghosn

#20. At least half of his hunters writhed on the ground with grubs already inside them, causing horrendous agony. These had to be helped away by terrified Ship People whose courage lay trembling in their hearts as lightly as leaves.

Peadar O'Guilin

#21. Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.

Steven Gerrard

#22. You can run but you can't escape the truth.

Laurann Dohner

#23. A retrospective's huge potential for learning should not be off-limits to any team member.

Luis Goncalves

#24. I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

John Galliano

#25. They drink from streams whose waters taste like tears, and indeed each swallow fills them with a few heartbeats of deep sadness.

Peadar O'Guilin