Undertows Quotes

#1. We didn't yet know about undertows and rip currents, the many ways the ocean can turn on you.

Patricia Engel

#2. The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it, the air was heavy with things that were known but not spoken. Like a hollow log, a drum, a church, it was amplified, so that conversations whispered in it sixty years ago can be half-heard today.

Margaret Atwood

#3. The last light with any real warmth had been at home, long ago, in a place and a time that no longer existed, with people whose names he didn't say even inside his own mind.

Gregory Maguire

#4. Valuing a business is part art and part science.

Warren Buffett

#5. Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.

John Hawkins

#6. But life and pain go hand and hand. On e cannot live fully unless one faces pain at least occasionally.

Mary Balogh

#7. It's a cat. Boy, you couldn't slip anything past me tonight.

Kim Harrison

#8. I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Andrew Carnegie

#9. The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10. Life is so unlikely, so rare and beautiful an opportunity it is to live, we must be on constant guard to ensure that our actions are worthy of the life it takes to perform them.

Chris Matakas

#11. Life was not something we did not know about. We were right in it. (page 4)

Charles Moore

#12. Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you're an arsehole, people don't want to work with you. You won't get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.

Bertie Carvel

#13. Shame, he said, caused me to hide. "And that," he said, "is a problem. Because the more we hide, the harder it is to be known. And we have to be known to connect.

Donald Miller

#14. Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

Tracy Kidder