The Boy Who Dared Important Quotes

#1. No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

Ian McEwan

#2. Mama shrieked. The first man turned

Raymond E. Feist

#3. The bracelet and the first charm appeared the day I punched Austin Jackson in the nose. I didn't mean to slug him. His face just got in my way. It was a bruising end to a disastrous first month in middle school.

Jenny Lundquist

#4. There was an expert competence in his manner of working; his movements were easy, intelligently economical.

Ayn Rand

#5. When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

John Muir

#6. I'm not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it.

Tina Fey

#7. And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them - a heart which knows only of particular not of general cases and which achieves greatness in little actions.

Boris Pasternak

#8. Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#9. When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

Zig Ziglar

#10. Outward pressure is always an opportunity to be inwardly transformed.

Lisa Bevere

#11. All fiction is better with explosions' said Jared. 'Basic fact of life.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#12. For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness.

Daisy Goodwin

#13. Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. All good fairy tales have meaning to many levels," Bruno Bettleheim observes in The Uses of Enchantment. "Only the child can know which meanings are significance to him at the moment.

Kate Bernheimer

#15. America has but one main problem
the character of the men and women it shall produce.

Calvin Coolidge