Pangborn Quotes

#1. Pangborn took the satchel by the straps. "What is it?" "A bomb." The mechanic's eyes widened. "Thanks?

Larry Correia

#2. His hands slipped from his throat, and he crashed to the ground like a tree falling.
"Oh, dear," said Pangborn, gazing at the fallen body of his comrade with fastidious distaste. "How unpleasant.

Cassandra Clare

#3. I guess I am what I have always been. Not Dauntless, not Abnegation, not factionless. Divergent.

Veronica Roth

#4. A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Italo Calvino

#5. And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.

Edgar Pangborn

#6. Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.

W. H. Auden

#7. Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

Edgar Pangborn

#8. ...But you, Lance, you've always needed someone special. And...I knew it was right when I met Tim. He needs you too, so much."

Lance just looked at her helplessly, unable to say anything.

"Oh, my dear son." She squeezed his hands. "He makes you dance.

Eli Easton

#9. It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

Garrison Keillor

#10. After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.

Anna Godbersen

#11. I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.

Ben Quayle

#12. Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life ... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

George Santayana

#13. Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#14. And when we get arrested, and Leah has to deal with the PR nightmare, it will make this night of hell worthwhile," Ryan offered, rolling his eyes.

Eden Summers

#15. It is known (to some) that by dwelling in the present, conceding what is necessary to past and future, but no more than is necessary, it is quite possible to live happily ever after

Edgar Pangborn