Ordovas Caxias Quotes

#1. I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.

Paul Auster

#2. Great sorrows have no leisure to complain:
Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.

William Goffe

#3. Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.

Arthur C. Clarke

#4. The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.

Alexander Hamilton

#5. Never judge the quality of a book by its price.

Claire Hamelin Manning

#6. You want it? Work for it.

Darcy Tucker

#7. Murtry swung first, so technically, that was self-defense. And if I'd wanted him dead, don't you think he'd be dead? It's not like I quit hitting him because I was tired.

James S.A. Corey

#8. Oh color me pretty-he's a cowboy. I love cowboys.

Audrey Carlan

#9. 463. - There is often more pride than goodness in our grief for our enemies' miseries; it is to show how superior we are to them, that we bestow on them the sign of our compassion.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#10. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

Raquel Welch

#11. The Beast had been a monster. He'd been a murderer. And yet on some terrible, deep level, he had been the only one to truly understand me.

Megan Shepherd