Pendleton's Quotes

#1. I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground.

Dean Koontz

#2. Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of life's pleasures. This is the message from Mack Bolan, book after book, and it is the only thing dignifying this type of fiction.

Don Pendleton

#3. The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.

Ilsa J. Bick

#4. Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

Bob Filner

#5. It requires a constant effort to keep people worried about inconsequential issues and unconcerned with important matters.

Robert Kroese

#6. What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

Max Lucado

#7. I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

Rabih Alameddine

#8. In dire times of survival it's not uncommon for people to turn to their faith and that was also true for the men on the oil tanker Pendleton, which was cut in half by 60-foot waves during the hurricane.

Jim Whittaker

#9. So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth.
Right, like the two are the same thing.

Ilsa J. Bick

#10. Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself.

Don Pendleton

#11. Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

Edmund Pendleton

#12. Succeeding in sport is about how much practise you put in.

Victoria Pendleton

#13. It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.

Victoria Pendleton

#14. I really love routine and so I've never found it a problem. I really enjoy it. I don't mind somebody organising what I have to do. I'm a creature of habit in some ways.

Victoria Pendleton

#15. Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.

Don Pendleton

#16. The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Denis Waitley

#17. Sometimes, I see and hear stories, especially those that involve children, and I wonder if this is hell and we are trying to get into heaven.

Raheem Devaughn

#18. Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

Peter Breggin

#19. They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

Isabel Allende

#20. Write what needs to be written.

Scott Hunter

#21. Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#22. When you see your male counterparts living a completely different lifestyle, I think it would be quite depressing! So no, it's not for me.

Victoria Pendleton

#23. When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction.

Don Pendleton

#24. Cross the street and run away.
Have another jolly day.

PW c.1973

Paige W. Pendleton

#25. Graham Pendleton is tall, athletic, charming, glamorously handsome. He excels at all sports, even the ones he hasn't tried.

Beatriz Williams

#26. There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one ...

Joey Dunlop

#27. Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.

Don Pendleton

#28. Hell was not for the living, it was for the dead, even the hallowed dead. Let the dead rest in peace. Someday Mack Bolan, too, would rest. For now, he had to find his way among the living.

Don Pendleton

#29. Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

Jeremy Taylor

#30. This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions twists all our arms collectively, but if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high-five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.

Pendleton Ward

#31. We belong to each other now really and truly, no make-believe. Doesn't it seem queer for me to belong to someone at last? It seems very, very sweet. And I shall never let you be sorry for a single instant.

Yours, for ever and ever,

Judy

Jean Webster

#32. It's a risky business being a cyclist in the UK, there are a lot of people who really dislike us. It's the Jeremy Clarkson influence - we're hated on the roads. We just hope people realise we are just flesh and bones on two wheels.

Victoria Pendleton

#33. From an early age I was aware of what America meant, and how the Marines at Camp Pendleton were ready to defend us at a moment's notice. I also remember what fabulous bodies those troops had.

Heather Locklear

#34. In competition, everything is very well planned in advance and very well detailed. You just stick to the plan, keep your head down and be as disciplined as possible in every aspect, whether sleep, recovery or the intensity of your training. And it's all recorded; the data is analysed.

Victoria Pendleton

#35. Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.

Don Pendleton

#36. And I know when your lips meet mine I feel as though I have never been kissed before.

Victoria Alexander

#37. The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

John Burroughs

#38. I like to eat healthily anyway and I think I've become more disciplined now I've retired - because I'm such a creature of habit, I don't find it hard to do. I quite enjoy the challenge.

Victoria Pendleton

#39. She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

Ilsa J. Bick

#40. In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None, however, have provided the pleasure of touching so many people from so many lands as have the Executioners.

Don Pendleton

#41. Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.

William Faulkner