Robert Barr Quotes

#1. A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke

Robert Barr

#2. Science, as a rule beneficent, has given birth to potentialities of crime which exceed the dreams of oriental romance.

Robert Barr

#3. Black and white, severally incomplete and at the same time completely several.

Vikrmn

#4. What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

Chris Daughtry

#5. When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts.

Robert Breault

#6. The greater the obligation in many cases, the deeper the ingratitude.

Robert Barr

#7. When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.

David Brooks

#8. The old squire died as a gentleman should, of apoplexy, in his armchair, with a decanter at his elbow.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

Robert Barr

#9. At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it.

Henry Rollins

#10. Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

Francis Bacon

#11. I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found.

Claire LaZebnik

#12. It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

Robert Barr

#13. I never let the things or people go easily but whenever i do, i make sure that i will attach to them again.

Rehan Khan

#14. Money is my drug of choice
and you can't make money if you're always stoned or high. (Twila Taunton in Redneck P.I.)

Trish Jackson

#15. She says that what you did was a cry for help."
"It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.

Holly Black

#16. Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

Robert Barr

#17. No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another

Robert Barr

#18. If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.

Che Guevara

#19. Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared; he uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects, and will take greater risks in carrying them out, than any other malefactor on earth.

Robert Barr

#20. The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

Robert Barr

#21. Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Bernard M. Baruch

#22. You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie