Van Tilburg Quotes

#1. Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#2. Helen, who was wild to be doing, and who had no patience for the limitation of words, or of thoughts, or even of the body, though she trusted the body most.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#3. Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.

Mattie Stepanek

#4. See the effect of commercial intercourse.

Juvenal

#5. A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.

Ronald Reagan

#6. We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#7. I failed, he said, I got talking my ideas. It's my greatest failing.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#8. Is it really so important to be different?

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#9. I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew eventually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.

Don Rickles

#10. The more I experience, the more I see that so many things in our future are planned for us, I think that what isn't planned for us is our attitude, and it's our attitude that can change our lives.

Rosemary Altea

#11. but you can feel awful guilty about nothing when the men you're with don't trust you.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#12. Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won't you? Because we're going to have a strange life.

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. Small dreams will not take you to the moon. So think big and start dreaming big soon.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Yes, I'm a nice man and I enjoy babies. I'm a sensitive guy. I held a baby the other day and it was the first time either of us cried.

Garry Shandling

#15. We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.

Ian Somerhalder

#16. Most men are more afraid of being thought cowards than of anything else, and a lot more afraid of being thought physical cowards than moral ones.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#17. I'd put him in the spot where he got hit. It was my fault he got shot. A hundred kills? Two hundred? More? What did they mean if my brother was dead?

Chris Kyle

#18. Places, like people, have their beginnings and have also their endings.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#19. If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.

Magda Szubanski

#20. By far my most popular novel, and one that allows me to join the small company of "respectable" writers whose fiction deals with the American West: Cormac McCarthy, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Tom Lee and a handful of others,

Larry McMurtry

#21. That hatred of the railroad was Winder's only original notion, and when he got mad that always came in some way. Everything else was what he'd heard somebody, or most everybody, say, only he always got angry enough to make it sound like a conviction.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#22. The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

Franz Kafka