Top 100 Leif's Quotes
#1. Um,i'm going shopping for a dress for the Homecoming Dance with Miranda,Wyatt and Leif."
Dank chuckled."So,Leif's wearing a dress?
Abbi Glines
#2. Skewer is just too vague. I think if you say, 'Stand back or I'll stab him in the stomach,' then I have an idea about how serious you are. After all, Leif's stomach is his favorite body part so that's a decent threat.
Maria V. Snyder
#4. Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone's been missing too long. I have to think my mother felt something like that.
Leif Enger
#5. There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
Leif Garrett
#6. I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.
Willie Aames
#7. You think this necklace is a tailsman?"
"Yep, I'm not stupid Leif. I hang with Death, ya know.
Abbi Glines
#8. Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else
ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.
Leif Enger
#9. An album of over 250 naturist photos by Leif Heilberg
Leif Heilberg
#10. You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all.
Leif Enger
#11. Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.
Maria V. Snyder
#12. Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.
Leif Garrett
#14. Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!
Leif Enger
#15. Not confidence - I understand confidence. What he had was knowledge.
Leif Enger
#16. Be careful whom you choose to hate.
The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly.
Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.
Leif Enger
#17. Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?
Leif Enger
#18. Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.
Leif Enger
#19. A line only gets grace when it curves, you know.
Leif Enger
#20. So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.
Leif Enger
#21. Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.
Leif Enger
#22. Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.
Willie Aames
#23. He pulled back and I recognized the eagerness in his blue eyes. "Interesting problem, though. Could be a bit tricky."
"Free Leif and then you can play," I said.
He grinned.
"Promise?"
"If I don't get to them first."
"That's my girl.
Maria V. Snyder
#25. We saw Leif to the door and wished him farewell. Time to hit the hay for the last time in this old house, I told my hound as I closed the door on the vampire. All right, buddy. What'll it be?
Kevin Hearne
#26. Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do.
Leif Enger
#27. Say what you like about melodrama, it beats confusion. The truth is we ought have a chance to say a little something when it's getting dark. We ought to have a closing scene.
Leif Enger
#28. I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
Leif Garrett
#29. I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.
Leif Garrett
#30. It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thing completely.
Leif Enger
#31. Unlike Leif and Karen, who could hardly bear to be in our mother's presence once she got sick, I couldn't bear to be away from her. Plus, I was needed.
Cheryl Strayed
#32. Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.
Leif Enger
#33. A cowboy doesn't ask for much, that's my observation. A flashy ride, a pretty girl, momentary glory ...
Leif Enger
#34. ... Yelena? Hello?" Leif poked my arm.
"I'm here."
"What are we going to do?" Leif asked me.
"It's too late to go anywhere else. Kiki and the horses will watch the outside of the building and alert me if anyone approaches."
"Ooh, guard horses. How quaint.
Maria V. Snyder
#35. I let myself pretend for now that my life was normal; that I loved Leif and my heart wasn't damaged beyond repair because I was in love with someone I couldn't find and feared I would never again
Abbi Glines
#36. I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.
Leif Garrett
#37. I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.
Leif Enger
#38. I find the college children delightful. I would like to have a drink with them too." "No, Leif, you want to drink of them, and they can sense that subconsciously because you radiate this predatory aura.
Kevin Hearne
#39. Someday, you know, we're going to be shown the great ledger of our recorded decisions-a dread concept you nonetheless know in your deepest soul is true.
Leif Enger
#40. Leif Ericson discovered Baffin Island, Labrador and Newfoundland, some 500 years before Columbus discovered America. Ericson sailed south along the Eastern Coast of America as far as Maine and perhaps beyond." Captain Hank Bracker
Hank Bracker
#41. We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.
Leif Johansson
#42. We see all of these things that we can never buy, all of these places we can never go, all of these people we can never touch or love or be.
Leif Wenar
#43. Once torched by truth, Swede wrote years later, a little thing like faith is easy.
Leif Enger
#44. It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world.
Leif Enger
#45. In times of dread it's good to have an old man along. An old man has seen worse.
Leif Enger
#46. You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that - if it's going to die, it has to die on its own
Leif Enger
#47. It's peculiar, to reach your destination," he told me. "You think you'll arrive and perform the thing you came for and depart in contentment. Instead you get there and find distance still to go.
Leif Enger
#48. You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give the OK on some really good music. It was the frustration of being signed to that label. I was depressed.
Leif Garrett
#49. When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.
Leif Garrett
#50. I have no problem with starting from scratch.
Leif Garrett
#51. I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.
Christopher Darden
#52. You can't explain grace, anyway, especially when it arrives almost despite yourself. I didn't even ask for it, yet somehow it breached and began to work.
Leif Enger
#53. Did you live here?" Leif asked. I nodded. "For two years"."Where did you stay?" "I had a room in Valek's suite." Leif shot me an incredulous look. "Boy, you worked fast.
Maria V. Snyder
#54. But the ruinous thing about growing up is that we stop creating mysteries where none exist, and worse, we usually try to deconstruct and deny the genuine mysteries that remain. We argue against God, against true romance, against loyalty and self-sacrifice.
Leif Enger
#55. Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.
Leif Garrett
#56. I visited the archeological site at the northern tip of Newfoundland. There is no question about it. It has been definitely determined that the Vikings were there for about 10 years - specifically, Leif Erikson and his extended family.
Russell Freedman
#57. What else exhausts like sustained deception?
Leif Enger
#58. Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.
Leif Garrett
#59. Is there a single person on whom I can press belief?
No sir.
All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw.
I've been there and am going back.
Make of it what you will.
Leif Enger
#60. We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,
and bitterly wept as we bore him along.
For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome,
we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong.
The Cowboy's Lament
Leif Enger
#61. I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.
Leif Enger
#62. Once torched by truth, a little thing like faith is easy.
Leif Enger
#63. Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.
Leif Enger
#64. In the end, only Leif believed that you were still alive. He thought you might be hiding somewhere, playing a game. As the rest of us grieved, Leif searched the jungle for you day after day."
"When did he finally stop?" I asked.
"Yesterday.
Maria V. Snyder
#65. if you look at humanity's per-capita energy use today, it's as thought each human being has twenty-three servants for him or her, every hour of every day
Leif Wenar
#66. Lady pranced and scraped her front hooves on the ice and then lowered her head and looked at us. I inhaled sharply and Leif fired the gun.
Cheryl Strayed
#67. Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust?
Leif Enger
#68. I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.
Leif Garrett
#69. Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
Leif Enger
#70. Yippee. I've been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I'll write a letter home to Mother. She'll be so pleased.
Leif
Maria V. Snyder
#71. And who doesn't long for the door in the air.
Leif Enger
#72. For his life seemed a curving line, capricious, moment by moment inviting grace.
Leif Enger
#73. We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.
Leif Enger
#74. I'm glad you're here. We've had some ... interesting developments." Leif groaned. "That's Yelena-speak for life-threatening danger.
Maria V. Snyder
#75. Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.
Leif Garrett
#76. You never like it to happen, for something as hopeful and sudden as a January thaw to come to an end, but end it does, and then you want to have some quilts around.
Leif Enger
#77. Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
Leif Garrett
#78. Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.
Leif Garrett
#79. Pride is the rope God allows us all.
Leif Enger
#80. The pain that we cause is the cause of our pain.
Leif Erikson
#81. Why is she convinced Ambrose is out to get her" Leif asked
"Ambrose?" Yelena raised a slender eyebrow. She carried a tray of tea and fruit. "You're on a first name basis with the Commander now?"
"I usually call him Amby, but not in mixed company.
Maria V. Snyder
#82. In keeping with his cryptic nature, all your Story Weaver said was 'The horses know where to go.' It's certainly not a military strategy I would use, but I've learned that the south uses its own strategy. And, strangely enough, it works.
Maria V. Snyder
#83. When I woke in the dark I was smiling - it's a happy thing to brace for a visit from old friend Envy who then for some reason never shows up.
Leif Enger
#84. Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.
Leif Garrett
#85. You said yourself they didn't hurt your girl."
Waiting, Davy asked, "How many times does a dog have to bite before you put him down?
Leif Enger
#86. Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.
Leif Garrett
#87. We and the world, my children, will always be at war.
Retreat is impossible.
Arm yourselves.
Leif Enger
#88. Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.
Leif Enger
#89. He stood and nodded at the great whitening sky. We're sure small, wouldn't you say? Takes the onus off, somehow.
Leif Enger
#90. Where do you think you're going?" Dr. Nokes demanded ... . "What do you have for directions?" And Dad ... said, "I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen
Leif Enger
#91. Is it hubris to believe we all live epics?
Leif Enger
#92. Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.
Leif Garrett
#93. We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good.
Leif Erikson
#94. I should like to take this opportunity to name you Sherlock and point out that there is no shit.
Kevin Hearne
#95. If you can't talk sense, don't talk at all.
Leif Enger
#96. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.
Leif Enger
#97. Dude. If that was a Shakespearean quote duel, he just kicked your ass.
Kevin Hearne
#98. Leif stared at me, utterly still, the way only vampires and pet rocks can manage.
Kevin Hearne
#99. Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder.
Leif Enger
#100. Those that aspire to raise their head above the crowd are most likely to have it shot off.
Leif Herrgesell
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