Kearsley Home Quotes

#1. The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo' brought home to me the great responsibility we writers have when telling stories that involve real people.

Susanna Kearsley

#2. Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

Stephen Hunter

#3. We're a divided country on sexual issues. That's why every news cycle brings more controversy.

Russell D. Moore

#4. The road does rarely welcome us, preferring we should stay at home, but I have found the remedy is simply then to move my home itself to other places, and so gain a different view.

Susanna Kearsley

#5. When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.

Roselyn Sanchez

#6. If I had the choice to travel to two places in Europe, it would be Paris and London.

Alain Ducasse

#7. Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

Susan L. Taylor

#8. A trifle more of that man,'he would say,'and I shall explode.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#9. That's what I love about the short story. You are naked on the page. There is nowhere to hide.

Jay Caselberg

#10. There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.

Fanny Fern

#11. The most progressive minister must shipwreck if he has a block of reactionary bureaucrats against him. And in Germany the bureaucrats all have their jobs still. - These pen-pushing Napoleons are invincible.

Erich Maria Remarque

#12. Women are always passionately certain that they are right, and neither counsel nor entreaty can get them to believe that there can be any other side to a case than that which they take.

G.A. Henty

#13. Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#14. When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down, Creep home and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young.

Susanna Kearsley

#15. My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.

Susanna Kearsley

#16. Tower Records was a place to meet your friends, your co-workers or a place to meet new friends who shared a common love of music, literature and all things cultural.

Colin Hanks

#17. An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

Paramahansa Yogananda