Strether Quotes

#1. Strether wondered, desiring justice. "They seem - all the women - very harmonious." "Oh in closer quarters they come out!" And then, while Strether was aware of fearing closer quarters, though giving himself again to the harmonies,

Henry James

#2. Strether had never smoked, and he felt as if he flaunted at his friend that this had been only because of a reason. The reason, it now began to appear even to himself, was that he had never had a lady to smoke with.

Henry James

#3. I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

Wil Wheaton

#4. Thirteen years have past since 1993, and I still have not seen one single book, documentary or anything to the biggest epidemic in Scottish, British prison history. I would go as far and say, no other prison in the world had fourteen men catching the HIV virus at the same time.

Stephen Richards

#5. Our love was electric, but it was also a toxic love. The kind that ravaged everything in its wake, everyone it touched.

Rohan Dahiya

#6. he almost never spoke about himself, in my hearing at least: though once, shortly after his marriage, when he brought his wife to lunch with me, he said...looking at her across the grassy quadrangle, 'I never expected to have, in my sixties, the happiness that passed me by in my twenties.

Jocelyn Gibb

#7. If you weren't driving, I'd kiss you senseless," I tell him.
He swerves to the side of the road and stops the car abruptly.
"Not driving any more.

Melina Marchetta

#8. I don't want to die without at least trying to understand why I've lived." Beatrice

Michael Goorjian

#9. We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

Rafael Correa

#10. Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

Elizabeth Edwards

#11. Mediocrity has become something that's acceptable," Keller says, "and in many cases, something that is aspirational." To

Dan Charnas

#12. For I suspect the next world will more plainly be a going on with this than most people think - only it will be much better for some, and much worse for others, as the Lord has taught us in the parable of the rich man and the beggar.

George MacDonald

#13. With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

Ronald Reagan

#14. Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

Adam Lambert

#15. Amber was past tense. We were covering her inanimate face in the white sheet of was.

Lorrie Moore

#16. I continue to say that I wish we had another word other than magic. It no longer means what we are doing or we are attempting to do. We have to find another terminology. Magic is first and foremost a way of belief.

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki