Ranney Quotes

#1. In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'
No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#2. The tapestry of her life was a work of art created not with a needle but with duty, courage, and honor, sprinkled liberally with laughter and hope.

Karen Ranney

#3. She recognized that great love carries a price of great torment if it ends, but it also bestows a greater and more valuable gift.

Karen Ranney

#4. Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.

Bill Phillips

#5. She had never felt such excitement, such awareness of life around her, as if the very air was charged with his presence.

Karen Ranney

#6. There's no scandal involved," she said airily. "I have no connection with you whatsoever. I have nothing to do with you. You are a thimble filled with water next to my ocean. You are a grain of sand to my beach. You are a tiny star in the sky. You're nothing to me.

Karen Ranney

#7. I welcome your opinions," Margaret said, glancing down. "Not your dictates." For

Karen Ranney

#8. You will treat me with respect."
He didn't say anything for a moment.
"What does that mean?" he finally asked.
She looked over at him. "Do I need to explain that, your lordship? I would think an earl of your reputed stature would know the meaning of respect.

Karen Ranney

#9. She threw open the window to breathe in the spring air, heavy with the sweet perfume of roses and heather. To her right was the rolling glen beckoning her to come and walk. 'Sit here awhile and dream your thoughts on this flat rock.' How often had she done that?

Karen Ranney

#10. [On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella.

Margaret Whiting

#11. All my happiness seems caught up in one of your smiles. - Jered Mandeville, 'Upon a Wicked Time

Karen Ranney

#12. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

George Santayana

#13. A castle sat in the background, turrets flying a minuscule emblem in the foreground sat a lady, her skirts adorned with picked blossoms "A castle," Helena murmured, "fit for a princess, except that the prince has escaped.

Karen Ranney

#14. Damnit.' Isabelle, standing in the mouth of the alley, her wet black hair like a cloak around her shoulders, kicked a trash can out of her way and glowered. 'Oh, for goodness's sake,' she said. 'I can't believe you two. Why? What's wrong with bedrooms? And pivacy?

Cassandra Clare

#15. The morning sun danced on her hair, transforming the brown to gold and reddish glints. An errant sunbeam angled over her face, dusting her long lashes with light, accentuating the perfection of her nose, her cheekbones, and the beauty of her complexion.

Karen Ranney

#16. She laughed. He was right. Her laughter was enchanting. So, too, the sparkle in her eyes as she glanced at him. He'd never seen eyes as darkly brown as hers. With her dark hair she should have been a study in monochrome, but she wasn't. Her cheeks matched her pink lips.

Karen Ranney

#17. He wanted her now in a way that was barely human.

Karen Ranney

#18. He wanted to know her with such familiarity that he could curve his fingers around a wrist, an ankle, a knee and recognize her from a hundred, a thousand other women

Karen Ranney

#19. A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.

Raymond Kelly

#20. Love is like lightning. You never see it coming. If it strikes you, you know it instantly and it will forever leave its mark.

Karen Ranney

#21. Love that defied trite words or even description, that carried with it tenderness and passion and laughter and friendship. Love that made her eyes sparkle and her breath stop when she saw him and imbued life with more meaning and more purpose.

Karen Ranney

#22. When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

Percy Sledge

#23. I don't mind being a recluse, really. It seems the extroverts are always talking.

Iimani David

#24. They locked gazes in that moment, the mother and the rake. Neither doubted that a battle had been joined

Karen Ranney

#25. What were her abilities? She played the pianoforte passably well even though it didn't interest her. She loved to read and could spend the rest of her life in a library. She'd written a book, and her imagination was such that she could transport herself from the wilds of Scotland to anywhere.

Karen Ranney

#26. My eyes are brown and my hair is brown."
"Your eyes are the color of warm chocolate," he said, tilting his head to study her. "Your hair isn't brown, but auburn with gold and red threads in it like the finest tapestry.

Karen Ranney

#27. A dwarf was waiting for Eragon in the dragonhold.

Christopher Paolini

#28. How very different it would be to live somewhere where people weren't afraid to reveal themselves, where emotion was prized instead of hidden.

Karen Ranney

#29. When the smell of her perfume, something that reminded him of faint spicy blossoms and spring, wasn't wreathed in a cloud around him.
Maybe it was magic. Was she one of the creatures from the many Scottish tales his nurse had told him as a child?

Karen Ranney

#30. The female in his carriage didn't say a word, merely turned and stare at him with doelike brown eyes.
Was she too afraid to speak?

Karen Ranney

#31. Mental seduction. He'd never thought it possible

Karen Ranney