Patrick Gale Quotes

#1. Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Plautus

#2. If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#3. Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.

Zoe Heller

#4. I mean, hell, bitch, I got the long hair and beard and women worship at my feet. Maybe I'm the fuckin' second coming?

Anonymous

#5. Muriel, you're not a convenience. I'd walk across a mile of cut glass in my bare feet to hold your hand and talk to you for one hour. You're everything to me.
Walt

Robyn Carr

#6. It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.

Thomas Dolby

#7. Like all their peers they went about things in the reverse order to the practice of their parents generation. They had sex, realised they got on really well then fell in love.

Patrick Gale

#8. This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.

Mick Cornett

#9. Giving, not trading or selling, is the basis of success. The most rewarding thing you can do is just to give the world something good. And ultimately you will be paid so much more for that gift than it you had tried to trade it for something else.

Russell Simmons

#10. I can't shake the feeling that Parker just told me goodbye. Not goodbye to our friendship, because that will always be there in some capacity. But goodbye to the way we used to be. The way we could have been.

Lauren Layne

#11. Might-have-been are insidious, aren't they, in the way they don't ever quite lie still or go away.

Patrick Gale

#12. I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.

Patrick Gale

#13. She hit him. Hard. Right in the face ...
"Holy shit," said Quinn. "Would it be wrong if I applaud?

Brigid Kemmerer

#14. He could feel her breath on his chest. She looked into his eyes.

Emily Whitaker

#15. Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.

Jack White

#16. When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained.

Dada Bhagwan

#17. I wonder if she's infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#18. Bad men you want to kiss are the worst; he had only to use the right tone of voice and you offered your throat to the knife.

Patrick Gale