Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes Quotes

#1. As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

Leo Durocher

#2. I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe.

Moby

#3. The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.

Patrick DeWitt

#4. There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

Edward Gibbon

#5. Dervish and a girl with limp blond hair were playing a lethargic

Khaled Hosseini

#6. There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

Henry Louis Gates

#7. He was right. I was letting myself get distracted, like a rabbit doing math problems instead of looking for foxes.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock

John B. Keane

#9. I don't know how to give up," he said. "If I did. I would have already, long before I met you. I'm not a man who's ever gonna lay down, Jenna." He paused, and his teeth flashed white in the near dark. "Except maybe for you.

Ellen Connor

#10. There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.

Ze Frank

#11. One could certainly think of a man not in terms of a body but as a single vital current. And this would allow one to grasp the concept of existence as dynamic and on-going, rather than as static.

Yukio Mishima

#12. When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that delete button just won't let anything go forward.

Lynda Barry

#13. There are many, many details of action involved in the simplicity and sharpness of being in this very moment, here, now.

Chogyam Trungpa

#14. And if there's one thing I've learned, it's that trying to make someone stay with you when he doesn't want to is a recipe for heartbreak.

Susan Ee