Snearys Quotes

#1. How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

Dan Skinner

#2. And Pip wanted to do good, if only for lack of better ambitions.

Jonathan Franzen

#3. Poorly written books are a kin to actors forgetting their lines.

Peggy Randall-Martin

#4. Harvard was a lovely assisted-living facility from which I'd emerged, like my classmates, stupider and more confident.

Avi Steinberg

#5. Is it possible to be happy before anything happens, before one's desires are gratified, in spite of life's difficulties, in the very midst of physical pain, old age, disease, and death?

Sam Harris

#6. Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Honore De Balzac

#8. Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?"
"Why, is your head missing some?" I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been

James Patterson

#9. The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

Antonio Porchia

#10. I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

Kip Thorne

#12. I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two ... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.

Max Barry