Susan Fenimore Cooper Quotes

#1. Now that I have written many words,
and let out so many loves, for so many,
and been altogether what I always was
a woman of excess, of zeal and greed,
I find the effort useless.

Anne Sexton

#2. It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.

Susan Fenimore Cooper

#3. She had heard it was easy to blame others for one's own failures. But that wasn't exactly accurate. It was easy to blame herself for what had happened
hard to live with it.

Frank Beddor

#4. Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

Michael Pollan

#5. We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

George Saunders

#6. Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

Susan Fenimore Cooper

#7. If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

Noam Chomsky

#8. You always want something. - Bahadur

Alwyn Hamilton

#9. The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

Albert Camus

#10. At least if I
was picking guys up in fits of drunken idiocy, they were not only handsome, but also even mildly clever.

C.E. Murphy

#11. This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country.

Dave Obey

#12. I am not saying that I want to ban Islam. I want less Islam in Europe because it doesn't allow any room for debate.

Geert Wilders

#13. What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!

Susan Fenimore Cooper

#14. It is so easy to thank people," said Mma Ramotswe, passing the letter over to Mma Makutsi, "and most people don't bother to do it. They don't thank the person who does something for them. They just take it for granted.

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. We have no rose without its thorn; it is the law of our existence; it is the condition annexed to all our pleasures.

Stephanie Dray

#16. Human nature has no bottom. It is as deep and mysterious as the mind of God.

Stephen King

#17. The more we learn to link the use of breath, mind, and voice, the greater our own power in life.

Ted Andrews

#18. Dove tried to take her mind away from his man meat, but it was like her brain was paralyzed by dick osmosis. Johnson's feet were big, which meant ...
He has a monster cock.

Debra Anastasia