Susurrant In A Sentence Quotes

#1. He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence - of talking without meaning - is never effaced.

Henry Adams

#2. I'm sure you know by now, Jesse Jackson was overheard saying, and I'll put this more delicately, that he wanted to cut Barack Obama's testicles off. And Jesse has been on several news programs the last couple of days, explaining what he meant by those comments. Do you need to explain that?

Jay Leno

#3. Wife number three: Lynette. She looked like a horse and kind of walked like one, too. Not surprisingly, neigh was her favorite word and seven nights a week.
~Detective Mike Malone

D.B. Woodling

#4. To deal with life and her many challenges, you have to have thick skin like a rhinoceros".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#5. The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through fear and come out scorched but still breathing.

Gail Caldwell

#6. Echo turned and her smoldering emerald eyes drifted to my bare chest. She licked her lips. "You 're still wet."
She wanted me-just not as badly as every throbbing muscle in my body wanted her.

Katie McGarry

#7. If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.

Serge Lang

#8. The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

Paulo Freire

#9. A calm mind helps our human intelligence to assess the situation realistically.

Dalai Lama

#10. Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.

Catherine Tate

#11. If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife.

Robert Sietsema

#12. Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

Pema Chodron

#13. She waited, unwilling to meet his eyes, hoping he would go on. When he didn't, the silence stretched between them like invisible cobwebs. In the dimmest part of her, she realized she might have wishes, too, elusive wishes that belonged more to a girl in a garden than they did to a captive.

Caragh M. O'Brien

#14. The general who does not advance to seek glory, or does not withdraw to avoid punishment, but cares for only the people's security and promotes the people's interests, is the nation's treasure.

Sun Tzu

#15. My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

Robert Crais