Nordan Quotes

#1. Uncle said, If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him.

Lewis Nordan

#2. When the abyss gazes into you, bill it.

Steve Aylett

#3. When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things.

Lewis Nordan

#4. Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant to use them, as advertised.

Lewis Nordan

#5. There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

Lewis Nordan

#6. Self-blame is usually a way of avoiding something more hideous anyway, something you're willing to be punished for but unwilling to change, or even something terrible in the imperfect structure of the universe.

Lewis Nordan

#7. I'm scared of you, Cole Walker. I'm scared you'll hurt me or I'll hurt you ... yet I have no intention of turning back. I'm throwing myself off this cliff, consequences be damned.

Samantha Young

#8. There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.

Simone De Beauvoir

#9. Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.

Lewis Nordan

#10. Birds are waterproof.

Lewis Nordan

#11. Roderick Morgenstern, who Magnus thought truly deserved to have a name that sounded like a goat chewing gravel, stood up happily to continue his speech.

Cassandra Clare

#12. We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.

Plato

#13. A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.

William T. Piper

#14. The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

Etel Adnan

#15. Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic, harried life I actually UNDERSTAND how meditation is supposed to work and WHY I should give it a TRY!

Elisabeth Leamy

#16. if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here. Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho

#17. Belief and disbelief were the same creature within me.

Lewis Nordan

#18. There is great pain in all love, but we don't care, it's worth it.

Lewis Nordan

#19. I learned how to argue. They called it 'Debate'. I learned how to worship. I learned how to become an eager worker and a passive consumer.
But I didn't learn anything practical, like how to purify water, build a home, start a fire, grow food, or survive without the help of corporations.

Joss Sheldon

#20. A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train.

Lewis Nordan

#21. I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.

Mitch Leigh

#22. Light is what gives joy to buildings.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

#23. It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.

Michael Perry

#24. The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.

Lewis Nordan