Herbert Akins Quotes

#1. Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#2. We live to survive our paradoxes.

Gordon Downie

#3. This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

Azim Daudpota

#4. He bit his lip, struggling to make words out of the war waging itself in his chest.
"I don't know what this makes me," he managed at last.
Hook laughed, not unkindly. "It makes you whatever you want it to make you.

Austin Chant

#5. Well, I drank enough to sustain a small Spanish village, I haven't had an orgasm in a thousand years, and I will probably die old and alone in a beautifully designed apartment with all of Clive's illegitimate children swarming around me ... How do you think I feel?

Alice Clayton

#6. Middle Earth. Vulcan. Pern. Arrakis. Magrathea. Discworld, Mid-World, Riverworld, Ringworld. Worlds upon worlds.

Ernest Cline

#7. And if you have the emotional strength and/or support from family and friends, the damage is reduced or erased. We think of it as the stress (minor or disabling) that is part of life as a human.

Toni Morrison

#8. Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.

Barry S. Strauss

#9. A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

Ettore Sottsass

#10. I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.

Shirley Eaton

#11. But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever.

Gordon Korman

#12. Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

Wallace Stegner

#13. watched in horror until Walter Cronkite finally announced the news that Kennedy was dead. The boys didn't try to argue about the stupidity of the ancient Hebrews again.

Katherine Paterson