Overbid Quotes

#1. Sometimes the gods smile," he grunted. "Yes, sir." And sometimes they kick you over and stomp you flat.

Tanya Huff

#2. A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.

Lemony Snicket

#3. People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#4. I deserve better - such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain.

Meredith Duran

#5. I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?

Ellen Hopkins

#6. And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair.

Karen Traviss

#7. I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.

Mindy Kaling

#8. April light was unlike any other. It had a charming, optimistic unreliability like an overbid hand in poker. It gave a promise of spring that it wasn't sure it could keep.

Peter Hoeg