Urquhart Quotes

#1. As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

Alex Morrison

#2. Urquhart could somehow feel the glow on his skin as the hairs on his arms raised up and the thick pelt of man fur that covered his torso and back prickled as if the legs of a thousand insects were crawling on his body.

Clive Cussler

#3. The women of this family leaned towards extremes.

Jane Urquhart

#4. Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

Edith Stein

#5. Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.

Jane Urquhart

#6. Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

Jane Urquhart

#7. Any work of art," said her grandfather,"must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world.

Jane Urquhart

#8. They represent the most dangerous kind of shape changers: those who cannot see, because of darkness beyond the gesture of the moment

Jane Urquhart

#9. Nice try?" Butters said. "Mister, where I come from, there is no try.

Jim Butcher

#10. The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. Someday," Joseph said to his granddaughter, "someday something will happen and you will want to go back to the carving. You won't be able to prevent yourself; that's just the way it is. The world always somehow takes us back to the chisel. Something happens and we have to respond.

Jane Urquhart

#12. Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

Jane Urquhart

#13. What do you do with everything that is cut away? she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life ...

Jane Urquhart

#14. Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another

Jane Urquhart

#15. And the odd thing was, she was beautiful then. It was her awakening, her ... recovery that made her beautiful. After that she just shone.

Jane Urquhart

#16. The lake was a shield of beaten brass flung down in the valley under a full sun.

Jane Urquhart

#17. Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate ... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

#18. while its in the future it can never be in the present

Colin Urquhart

#19. I don't know what I mean, but I know I believe it.

Jane Urquhart

#20. Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to
moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written
in it?

Richard Dawkins

#21. The cruelty and brutishness of men is, on occasion, more than I can bear to witness.

Rachel Urquhart

#22. This was the way it was going to be then, this road she was going to have to walk. She would always be thinking of him so that he would be beside her even when he wasn't there, making her joyous or miserable, but always, always controlling the colour of her days.

Jane Urquhart

#23. Hardly anybody," he said, "understands how essential shit is to holding things together.

Jane Urquhart