Unforgotten Haven Quotes

#1. When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.

Ann Radcliffe

#2. Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

Nami Mun

#3. One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. Life is too short so we must generalize.

Gordon Allport

#5. We must always meet our obligation to those who fall behind without our assistance. But let's remember, without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence - in education or any other walk of life.

Ronald Reagan

#6. While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone)

Sue Grafton

#7. Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

Martha Grimes

#8. He stepped forward, forcing me back. You're right. I made a decision. It was the wrong one.

Kim Harrison

#9. If there is an operation, and if that operation is successful, she says she will move to Sweden. I fear for her future in a country whose citizenry is forced to assemble its own furniture.

Anthony Marra

#10. Hand-barrow - a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#11. When I saw the rough cuts of 'The Village of Peace,' I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#12. It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

Matt Lucas

#13. When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Charles R. Swindoll

#14. Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

Langston Hughes

#15. The basic condition of human life is happiness.

Dalai Lama