High Lonesome Quotes

#1. Dad said High Lonesome, as the area was known, wasn't a place for the soft of head or the weak of heart, and he said that was why he and I made out just fine there, because we were both tough nuts.

Jeannette Walls

#2. It felt somehow comforting to return to the sparkling lake tucked into the mountains on Portal Prime. But why, when everything about Mesme made her the antithesis of comfortable?

Because here was where desperation had become hope. Where helplessness had become purpose.

G.S. Jennsen

#3. I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs. 50 cents per walk, per dog, and that accumulated quickly. I bought a camera, a telescope. I taught myself astrophotography. I did all this.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#4. In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

Fareed Zakaria

#5. Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.

James Patterson

#6. The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call out there.

Truman Capote

#7. How shall we be beautiful? By loving the One who is always beautiful. The more love grows in you, the more beauty grows: for love itself is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine Of Hippo

#8. Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves.

Sheryl Sandberg

#9. The whole town was like that. Probably there weren't three men in town who had not used guns, and used them a lot.

Louis L'Amour

#10. How could a man become a god?" Nell asked. "By living in an extremely pragmatic society," said Constable Moore after some thought

Neal Stephenson

#11. The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would do something about that [abandoned child]. But in Afghanistan, people hardly have the means to take care of themselves, let alone a random child on the street.

Immortal Technique

#12. A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.

David Whyte

#13. Heloise long ago reconciled herself to the idea that all is fair in love and war, which is just another way of saying that nothing in life is ever fair, because life is love and war.

Laura Lippman