Hirebrand's Quotes

#1. Covenant did not reply at once. He trembled also, and hand to clench himself before he could say without a tremor, "Why? Why do you trust me?"
The Hirebrand's eyes gleamed as if he were on the verge of tears, but he was smiling as he said, "You are a man who knows the value of beauty."

Stephen R. Donaldson

#2. I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.

Nick Clegg

#3. I was beyond Ice Princess. I was Sorceress of the Antarctic and a bitchy one at that.

Kristen Ashley

#4. A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#5. On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

Fareed Zakaria

#6. He had begun the diary less as a record of his life (for whom and why? What life?) than as a regular and self-indulgent exploration, a means of makings sense of the past years, part catharsis, part comforting affirmation.

P.D. James

#7. Most writing doesn't take place on the page; it takes place in your head.

Susan Orlean

#8. Over the years, I have been fortunate to get to play a lot of really kick-ass girls.

Summer Glau

#9. He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.

Nicolas Bentley

#10. A strange marriage that had been, though most marriages appear strange to spectators.

Ellen Glasgow

#11. I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. Preston:
See you in a few. I'll be the handsome guy at the end of the isle. Come get me.

Abbi Glines

#13. Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

Gary Hamel

#14. Haste denies all acts their dignity.

Dante Alighieri

#15. He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.

Elizabeth Goudge

#16. London style is individual.

Mary Quant