Page 262 Quotes

#1. Do you want me to tell you what I give a shit about at age sixty-five', Cullen said, 'and what I don't give a shit about?'
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Elmore Leonard

#2. When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

Abigail Adams

#3. There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#4. If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.

J.D. Salinger

#5. Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

William James

#6. Without words, protestations, or vows, I have laid my life in your hands. You fail me, and, I repeat once more, you are quite right in acting thus; nevertheless in losing you I lose part of my life.

Alexandre Dumas

#7. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

William Hazlitt

#8. It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place.

Stephen R. Covey

#9. I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.

Anita Hill

#10. I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

John Gregory Dunne

#11. I believe every woman has the right to any birth experience she wants, wherever she chooses and with whatever care provider she's comfortable. It's about doing your own due diligence and finding the best option for you.

Ricki Lake

#12. Yes, he was leaving, but he'd told her repeatedly that they would find a way to make it work. and yes, it was true that they didn't know each other well, but considering the short time they'd been together, he'd learned enough to know that he could love her forever. all they needed was a chance.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. My greatness is not dependent on it being understood by others. My greatness lies in the acceptance of none other than myself.

Denika Carothers

#14. Hot hearts are wont to overpower cold minds

Ben Kane