Sealskin Trousers Quotes

#1. The thought was sobering. How many people's motives didn't match up with what I'd taken for their actions? How many villains were the heroes of their own stories? I didn't know, and I was terribly afraid that I was never going to find out.

Mira Grant

#2. You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

Elizabeth Edwards

#3. They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

John Stuart Mill

#4. There was general agreement that Brahe was correct, until Gell-Man taught the squad to swear in Arabic.

John Scalzi

#5. [Canada's ruling circles seek] to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.

Tim Buck

#6. It is very hard for a man to defend anything of which he is entirely convinced. It is comparatively easy when he is only partially convinced.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. A lot of kids are broken, and it's hard for them to believe in anything. But you have to have an imaginative mind and tell yourself, 'Hey, I can do whatever I want to.'

Torii Hunter

#8. Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding may in fact hinder it; our instrument becomes our burden

Irving Copi

#9. There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.

Cassandra Clare

#10. But I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike.

Eric Linklater

#11. It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

Horace

#12. she had carried anxiety with her to work every morning and brought it home with her every night; a nameless, inconsiderate companion that had a habit of poking her in the ribs whenever she was trying to relax.

Joe Hill

#13. Hate generalizes, love specifies.

Robin Morgan