Hinnant Cannon Quotes

#1. He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie.

Dennis Lehane

#2. Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

Livy

#3. It is essential to consider as a constant point of reference in this essay the regular hiatus between what we fancy we know and what we really know, practical assent and simulated ignorance which allows us to live with ideas which, if we truly put them to the test, ought to upset our whole life.

Albert Camus

#4. The heart can bear a tremendous amount of pain and still hold an abundance of happiness. As you experience more of life's intense pleasures and extreme depths of despair, you will learn just what the heart can hold.

Charlotte Symonds

#5. I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

Jack LaLanne

#6. The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher

#7. My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.

Henry Adams

#8. It doesn't match anything you have."

Exactly, I think. This bracelet matches nothing in my wardrobe . . . Nothing in my life. The bracelet isn't anything like who I am; it's a bracelet for who I want to be.

Carolina on p. 189 of HOUR OF THE BEES by Lindsay Eagar

Lindsay Eagar

#9. One thing we've noticed is these days people see all kinds of things they don't want to see, so they go blind." "Selectively blind.

Dean Koontz