Stephanie Plum Ranger Quotes

#1. You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.

Lloyd Alexander

#2. Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.

Alan Cohen

#3. Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

Audie Murphy

#4. You've been busy using your breaking and entering skills," I said.
"I just enter. I don't usually break."
"You broke down Pitch's door."
"Lost my temper."
-Ranger and Stephanie

Janet Evanovich

#5. You can relax. I am not here to collect on the deal"
I blinked. "You are not? Then why did you drop your gun belt?"
"I am tired. I wanted to sit and the belt is uncomfortable."
"Oh."
He smiled. "Disappointed?"
"No." Liar, liar, pants on fire.

Janet Evanovich

#6. Firms that draw commitment from customers and staff give them a way to sign up for something that can allow them to be their best self.

John Jantsch

#7. Excuse me?" I said, palms down on the Formica tabletop. "Coffee? I thought we came here for pie." "I don't eat the kind of pie they serve here." I felt a flash of heat go through my stomach. I knew firsthand the kind of pie Ranger liked.

Janet Evanovich

#8. Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.

Gautama Buddha

#9. Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing.

Janet Evanovich

#10. We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there.

William Bell

#11. Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap
cheat sheet.

Janet Evanovich

#12. Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.

Habeeb Akande

#13. Ranger was grinning. "Somebody beat the shit out of this guy before he got shot."
"That would be me."I said.
"Babe,"Ranger said, the grin widening.

Janet Evanovich

#14. Ranger was definitely wow. He stood half a head taller than me. He was perfectly toned muscle, and he had classic Latino good looks. He always smelled great. He dressed only in black. His eyes were dark. His hair was dark. His life was dark. Ranger had lots of secrets.

Janet Evanovich

#15. It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

Rufus Wainwright

#16. Love is like life with or without justice, with or without fairness.

Fadi Hattendorf

#17. My grandmother is a little Cuban woman who cooks all day and speaks Spanish. Your grandmother watches pay-per-view porn."
"She used to watch the Weather Channel, but she said there wasn't enough action."
-Ranger and Stephanie

Janet Evanovich

#18. The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.

H.L. Mencken

#19. Little given to brahman in distress compensated abundantly,
Is got back not in equal quantity, but in a way higher degree.
[210] 12.2 Chanakya

Munindra Misra

#20. Ten minutes passed before his (Ranger's) Mercedes appeared at the end of the street, gliding through the rain, sleek and sinister, water not daring to adhere to the paint finish.

Janet Evanovich

#21. Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

Tracy McMillan

#22. Why do you give me cars?"
"It's fun," Ranger said."And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important to me?"
"You love me?"
"Yes."
A sigh inadvertently escaped. "We're really screwed up, aren't we?"
"In a very large way," Ranger said.

Janet Evanovich

#23. When casting pebbles into water, look at the ripples being formed thereby. Otherwise this activity will be an empty amusement.

K. Prutkov

#24. I'm merely a baseball player, guys, ... In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.

John Rocker