Sea John Banville Quotes

#1. How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

John Banville

#2. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and expect the impossible.

Lara Whatley

#3. At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.

John Banville

#4. Sometimes you just make a contact, and it feels right, but you don't know why. But down the road, something will happen that will make it clear why that connection had to be made at the point it was made.

James Redfield

#5. When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

Jack Miller

#6. I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

Ryan Murphy

#7. The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Spiro T. Agnew

#8. Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

Karl Marlantes

#9. I want Toy to know that I know. That no matter how many boys tell her they love her, how many boys tell her she's beautiful, how many boys crawl into her window at night and make love to her, it doesn't help. That I know it doesn't help. She is my sister and I love her. Like I want her to love me.

Erica Lorraine Scheidt

#10. The focus of pastoral leadership is so consistently on the people, in fact, that the spiritual condition of the flock is the only real measure of a leader's success.

Christopher A. Beeley

#11. There are always far better things ahead than what we will leave behind.

Chris Vonada

#12. I go where I want to go, I do what I want to do, and I am beholden to no one.

Mark M. DeRobertis

#13. One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Nicolas Chamfort

#14. Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Neil Armstrong

#15. Finding your path means finding out what you were put here on this earth to do. What is your life's purpose? Why were you given this gift called life? And what is the gift you give back to life?

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#16. Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.

Victor Hugo

#17. And clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.

Louisa May Alcott