Helen Shivers Quotes

#1. From this state also will he flee. If I should attempt to enumerate them one by one, I should not find a single one which could tolerate the wise man or which the wise man could tolerate.

Seneca.

#2. I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Khaled Hosseini

#3. I never thought a little time and space would turn into miles and worlds apart

Anonymous

#4. If you change your way of thinking and being, you will change your way of seeing.

Tanya Masse

#5. He wondered if the German girl ever knew that someone had loved her so much that he painted her twice on the cold cement wall of a machine-gun pillbox.

Jess Walter

#6. For the lesson was clear-one did not poke around at night, not unless one wanted to see ghosts.

Anna Godbersen

#7. - What's with this obsession over fire?
- It draws you into drunken oblivion.

Ophelia Callens

#8. When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

Abraham Lincoln

#10. Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.

Angela Lansbury

#11. Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you cannot afford me,and also, please leave that horse alone. Good night.

Cassandra Clare

#12. Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#13. My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

Joe Biden