Running On Empty Book Quotes

#1. I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

David Benioff

#2. To be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Corra May Harris

#3. Nay, nay!" said the Squire. "It's not so easy to break one's heart. Sometimes I've wished it were. But one has to go on living - 'all the appointed days,' as is said in the Bible.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#4. Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

Jane Mayer

#5. Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of those words, performative words. Some words can literally make things real.

David Foster Wallace

#6. Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost
something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. rethink things. There was something about the design that lacked purity, he felt. "Why

Walter Isaacson

#8. Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action ( caeteris paribus ) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?

Isaac Newton

#9. Facts are no more slid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are. Bot both are sensitive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

Jules Verne

#12. Gwendolen. How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

L. Lionel Kendrick