Philida Trent Quotes

#1. You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Kris Kristofferson

#2. I'll tell you something else too; by the time we're through we shall have had all we can stand of this North woman. I wouldn't mind betting she thinks we have nothing better to do than run around in circles while she gets on with this three-act problem play of hers.

Georgette Heyer

#3. It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

Brian Mulroney

#4. Three hours later the two men were calling each other Harry and Allan, which goes to show what a couple of bottles of tequila can do for international relations.

Jonas Jonasson

#5. Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

Edgar Allan Poe

#6. Staying in the safe darkness of memory and yearning is easy. Going forward to the light of possibility takes courage.

Blaize Clement

#7. To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

A.H. Almaas

#8. To save our friends' nerves, I suggest we meet on a plane of brutal courtesy. It need not interfere with our mutual distrust.
-Francis Crawford of Lymond

Dorothy Dunnett

#9. They are not your players, they are loaned from the club. You just wheel them out for a game for England.

Kevin Keegan

#10. Took a vow to protect and serve,
All you do is disrespect and murder.
I ask that you not hurt my kids;
This is where you work ... this is where I live.

Ka

#11. Surrender to the flow.

Mike Gordon

#12. Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.

Rachel Caine

#13. Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

Pico Iyer

#14. God don't give out certain.

Jeffery Deaver