Rawdon Quotes

#1. The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never again steam or sail - but then he reminded himself of one certainty: when his store of whiskey was gone, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was going to blow his brains out.

Dan Simmons

#2. I feel a little like Rod Tidwell from Jerry Maguire

Kendrick Meek

#3. What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

Joseph Addison

#4. Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.

Henning Mankell

#5. I've dedicated my life to public service, and I feel it's still a noble profession. However, I also understand it's a contact sport.

Pete Visclosky

#6. I control my fear with love..." -Audrey

Suzanne Young

#7. The frustration of being marginalized often gets misdirected at the most visible members of one's own community, because they are more accessible than the real agents of marginalization.

Melissa Febos

#8. There's a big line between beauty and nudity, Alice! A man does not need provocative dressing to see the beauty in a woman.

Farhan Shahjahan

#9. But surely, if you trust God, you can believe the bad moments pass, and the good memories are worth enough.

Helen Hooven Santmyer

#10. We've taken SMS technology for consumers and improved it.

Jan Koum

#11. Love and lies can corrupt even the purest heart.

Cassandra Clare

#12. Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.

Sheryl Sandberg

#13. They told me how men made laws that allowed them to discriminate, segregate, and incarcerate without due process. Men are still writing those same laws today. They might wrap them in a different flag, but we can see that swastika underneath.

Dan Skinner

#14. Do you think I envy him? At least I was reared without tenderness and without expectation of it. During all that time, you were breeding a hothouse love based on deception.

Dorothy Dunnett

#15. Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.
Has it?

Dan Simmons

#16. Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea, this 'home' we can access inside ourselves.

Kristin Armstrong