Amy Weintraub Quotes & Sayings

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses. — George Washington

everyone is dead and this is hell. — Stephen King

If you're outmatched, out-numbered, out-skilled, you'll run and live to fight another day." Lucky stopped jogging and pulled her close to him. He gently forced her eyes to lock with his. "You need to understand there are plenty of predators in our world who are far more dangerous than you'll ever be. Those are the ones you need to fear and, in a way, respect." ~ Lucky from Lone Wolf Rising — Jami Brumfield

And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let us never forget how good we all once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings as made us, too, ... perhaps better than we actually are. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I can't see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted. — Joanna Lumley

For regret, like desire, seeks not to analyse but to gratify itself. When one begins to love, one spends one's time, not in getting to know what one's love really is, but in arranging for tomorrow's rendezvous. — Marcel Proust

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world. — Rene Descartes

Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful. — Robert Bolt

If we can prevent something bad, without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it. — Peter Singer

One day, she'd find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it. — Ilona Andrews

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination. — Oliver Sacks

Leaves that rustled, twigs that scraped and rattled. But the thin shapes weren't falling, they were scurrying head first down the tree-trunks at a speed that seemed to leave time behind. Some of them had no shape they could have lived with, and some might never have had any skin. She saw their shriveled eyes glimmer eagerly and their toothless mouths gape with an identical infantile hunger. Their combined weight bowed the lowest branches while they extended arms like withered sticks to snatch the child. ("With The Angels") — Ramsey Campbell