Jiles Paulette Quotes

#1. It was a puzzling thing as to why they packed up in towns in the way they did.

Paulette Jiles

#2. I did not cry. I only breathed. Horribly. Intentionally. And then forgot to breathe.

Cheryl Strayed

#3. When you do something unusual, the audience doesn't 100 percent know what you're up to in the beginning. And if you're doing a character comedy, they haven't learned the characters yet.

Greg Daniels

#4. Who cares for your fashions and your wars and your causes? I will shortly be gone and I have seen many fashions come and go and many causes so passionately defended only to be forgotten.

Paulette Jiles

#5. Percy wondered if something inside the boy had broken permanently.

Rick Riordan

#6. Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

Charles Duhigg

#7. Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

Bill Ayers

#8. Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy.

Ava Dellaira

#9. Falls. He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works. THAT

Paulette Jiles

#10. but now the news of the world aged him more than time itself.

Paulette Jiles

#11. I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

David Hockney

#12. What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.

Paulette Jiles

#13. The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

Paulette Jiles

#14. Everyone has come to celebrate her return. They will go home and talk about it forever, unto the next generation. But they will not come here and ask about her welfare.

Paulette Jiles

#15. A thin watery sun laid its gunmetal shine on the country below.

Paulette Jiles

#16. She said something in Kiowa in a happy tone. My name is Ay-ti-Podle, the Cicada, whose song means there is a fruit ripening nearby. She gestured back toward the big bay saddle horse and tossed her hair back. It was as if she wanted to include Pasha in this newfound happiness.

Paulette Jiles

#17. No matter what side you were on, if you had survived Gettysburg you were to be congratulated.

Paulette Jiles

#18. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces.

Sarah Vowell

#19. Johanna bent her head far back to look up into the leafy canopy and the rainy sky. There was a cautious wonder on her face. She said something in Kiowa in a low voice. So much water, such giant trees, each possessing a spirit. Drops like jewels cascaded from their spidery hands.

Paulette Jiles

#20. And the newspapers, they say nothing about this at all or about the poor at all, Doris said. There are great holes in your newspapers. Nobody sees them. God sees them. The

Paulette Jiles

#21. Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.

Paulette Jiles

#22. Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Paulette Jiles

#23. More than ever knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect children and kill for them if necessary.

Paulette Jiles

#24. Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself out onto the dreaming continent and each of its seven stars gleamed from between the fitful clouds.

Paulette Jiles

#25. Charlotte held out her hand. She was somewhat surprised when Linnet suddenly embraced her.
"Keep those claws sharp, kitten. I hope we'll meet again soon."
Hugging the girl tightly, Charlotte felt her throat closing and her eyes pricking with heat. "I hope so too.

Andrea Cremer

#26. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.

Paulette Jiles

#27. Laughter is good for the soul and all your interior works.

Paulette Jiles

#28. Religious faith may very well be considered a science, for it responds invariably to certain formulae. Perform the technique of faith according to the laws which have been proved workable in human experience and you will always get a result of power.

Norman Vincent Peale

#29. He did not know that he was expected to attempt to buy his way into society and that they anticipated the pleasure of rejecting him. He had no time to notice their disappointment.

Ayn Rand

#30. I'm far too sexy to be suffering from blue balls.

J.J. McAvoy

#31. Frank Curry thinks I'm a soft touch. Might be because I'm a woman. Might be because I'm a soft touch.

Gillian Flynn