Oreki Houtarou Quotes

#1. Please," she said, "don't mention Jamie Fraser to my daughter.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. Heaven lieth at the feet of mothers.

Muhammad

#3. My late unlamented father taught me one valuable lesson. 'Boy', he would say to me in the thick brogue of a champion drunk, 'the only way to fight is to fight dirty. The only place to hit is below the belt.

J.D. Robb

#4. Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years.

Amy Leach

#5. I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like.

Jarod Kintz

#6. I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

Ian Anderson

#7. Put some action on your good intentions!

Lorii Myers

#8. Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

Charles De Gaulle

#9. Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.

Edward O. Wilson

#10. Everyone loves a mysterious country.

M. John Harrison

#11. One gift, one time--that's bribery. Lots of gifts over a long time--that's politics.'-- Roland Vanatua, from The Coup

Jamie Malanowski

#12. Imagination is activating the SIM card of your super conscious. -RVM

R.v.m.

#13. I thought I'd make them understand, with rhetoric, with everything I had learned. I didn't realize I was ending it all, that it would really be that easy for me to vanish from the family.

Catherine Lacey

#14. Truths are dangerous," he said.
"Then why are you writing them in a book?"
"To catch them between the pages," said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear.

Kristin Cashore