Stracher Quotes

#1. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. Following an extended boom in housing, the demand for homes began to weaken in mid-2005. By the middle of 2006, sales of both new and existing homes had fallen about 15 percent below their peak levels. Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction.

Ben Bernanke

#3. Of course Will was right again. But I realized clearly for the first time how desperate our plight was. It has been foolish to think we could rescue Kai. Now, wherever he is, it couldn't be worse than being held captive by pirates. Even cannibals were more trustworthy.

Cameron Stracher

#4. It seemed foolish and wasteful and wonderful - to live as if the sky were endless and time itself had no measure.

Cameron Stracher

#5. Will resist. Thus, unlike Frank Shorter or Alberto Salazar, Rodgers was never ranked among the top ten in the 5000 meters or

Cameron Stracher

#6. Is a way to approach life so that when asked, "Your money or your life?" you say, "I'll take both, thank you.

Vicki Robin

#7. I tried to smile but feared I would cry. 'I always wondered what it was like to be shot.'
'Now you've lived to tell the tale.

Cameron Stracher

#8. It's the fear that kills us, Leah," Jende said. "Sometimes it happens and it's not even as bad as the fear. That is what I have learned in this life. It is the fear.

Imbolo Mbue

#9. What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.

Leonor Varela

#10. It is the power of visualization that enables us to reach out toward the future, whether our goal is to bring down a mammoth, write a book, or set a new record time in a race.

Cameron Stracher

#11. Will knelt beside me. I wished I could have taken a holo of him at that moment and played it for him the next time he kicked me out of his room. He never would believe he was the same brother who had once tried to knock me out with a pillow.

Cameron Stracher

#12. You can't just fly into the Great Coat, shoot your way into Bluewater, and take Kai and his father,' I told him.
'Why not?'
'Cause you can't. They'll killl you, for one thing.'
Ulysses scratched his beard. 'Hmm. Need a better plan.

Cameron Stracher

#13. It made me angry that people could simply kill other people, take what they wanted, and ignore the cries of the sick and hungry. The world wasn't like that - or it shouldn't be like that - even though I hadn't seen enough of the world to know what it was really like.

Cameron Stracher

#14. D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

Mark Ronson

#15. Tonight," he whispered, his voice hoarse and hot in her ear, "I will make you mine."
-Simon to Daphne

Julia Quinn

#16. The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

Douglas MacArthur

#17. I think music sharing of any kind is great.

Talib Kweli

#18. The rules only applied to
people who couldn't afford different rules.

Cameron Stracher

#19. The signs of older times could still be seen on the facades of sealed buildings: Gap, Starbucks, Abercrombie & Fitch - merchants that had sold things people didn't necessarily need but always wanted.

Cameron Stracher