Lieutenant Hornblower Quotes

#1. If you need to find out who is your friend
among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.

Toba Beta

#2. A woman who is desired by someone else, even a love-starved coffinmaker, immediately becomes more precious than before. Man, as it happens, lives by relative rather than absolute values.

Erich Maria Remarque

#3. In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

Donna Tartt

#4. This is your first marathon. Possibly, you'll want it to be your last. Focus on future races draws energy from the one in front of you. Like the mileage that comprises them, train for marathons one at a time.

Gina Greenlee

#5. I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.

Marie Curie

#6. There is nothing more powerful as attitude.

Myles Munroe

#7. I suspect that children want their parents to be busy; they don't want to have to fill your schedule with their paltry needs. Children want to be assured that there are other things to do, important things; more important, on occasion, than they are.

Lionel Shriver

#8. It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child.

Augusten Burroughs

#9. Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to conceal ignoble birth.

C.S. Forester