Sisman Quotes

#1. ...life is a river

Isabel Miller

#2. We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

Anne Heche

#3. Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#4. You can't choose the time and place, the when and where, and with whom you fall in love.

Sarah Tregay

#5. In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.

Gautama Buddha

#6. Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.

Jennifer E. Smith

#7. She had typed A Murder of Quality under protest, but this time she declined, so David had to rely on the Embassy secretaries instead. In a letter to Ann written in June, he complained that 'the new book drags along but the girls are all away and there's no one to type it'.35

Adam Sisman

#8. I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

Wavy Gravy

#9. She stares straight into the camera, eyes narrowed. She wears an expression I've not seen from her before. Disgust? Defiance? She looks nothing like the woman I've known my entire life.

Shannon Duffy

#10. When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.

John Wayne

#11. Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#12. I believe that we should, on biblical grounds, tell all parents of mentally disabled children that God loves their children, regrets terribly that they are disabled, and will, when they die, carry them gently into a heavenly life where every person is forever whole.

Lewis B. Smedes

#13. In 1989 an American invasion, Operation Just Cause, had ousted the government of President Manuel Noriega. 'They got rid of Ali Baba but they forgot the forty thieves,' ran a popular joke in Panama.

Adam Sisman

#14. I cannot get used to the dispassion with which wealthy Greeks contemplate their impoverished compatriots;

Adam Sisman

#15. Renounce," he says again and now it begins to make sense.
"No," I breathe and prop myself up on my elbows. "Never.

Celia Mcmahon

#16. Sometimes, people want something so much -they see what they want to be but they don't know how to achieve it. - Molly

Robyn Sisman

#17. His story wasn't "I'll never read," it was "I have dyslexia, so I have to work harder to make everything happen - and I will.

Anthony Robbins

#18. Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.

Larry Ellison

#19. The paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#20. In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; there are few maps to these remote regions, and only the occasional sign to guide the explorer.

Adam Sisman