Operable Shutters Quotes

#1. A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

Aminatta Forna

#2. Who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

Katherine Anne Porter

#3. He drew in an answering breath, and she waited to hear the quip, the joke, the dab of levity for the most intense moment they'd ever shared. But he only dropped his head into the crook of her neck and laid his mouth over her leaping pulse as they found their unhurried rhythm in the dark.

Jessica Lemmon

#4. Our enemies make us strong, Miss Muffet, not our friends. Our friends will lie to us, tell us what we need to hear. Forgive us. We must keep a few good enemies on hand, always, to keep us sharp and teach us never to do anything that needs forgiveness.

Ann Rinaldi

#5. Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.

Thomas S. Monson

#6. I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well.

George Carlin

#7. Every so many years, he went to England to visit - judging by the photographs he showed us - a sundial and some oak trees.

Jorge Luis Borges

#8. In the beginning there is not much difference between the coward and the courageous person. The only difference is, the coward listens to his fears and follows them, and the courageous person puts them aside and goes ahead. The courageous person goes into the unknown in spite of all the fears.

Osho

#9. The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.

Fritz Haber

#10. There was a glimmer of nightly rabbits across the ground.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. I wish we didn't live so far apart ... You're kind of addicting.

Nicholas Sparks

#12. A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.

George Eliot

#13. The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living.

David Abrahamsen

#14. Screw this. He'd blown his shot at nice-and-easy, which only left quick-and-brutal - my favorite way to play.

Rachel Vincent

#15. Other countries spend, on average, only about one-half of what the U.S. spends per capita on health care. Isn't it reasonable, therefore, for us to expect our system to rank above theirs? Unfortunately, among these twelve countries, the U.S. system is consistently among the worst performers.

T. Colin Campbell