Argento Vivo Quotes & Sayings

'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real ... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir. — Tim O'Brien

I'm a fighter, so when someone says 'no' to me, I try to figure out what I need to adjust to hear the yes. — Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest? — Marty Rubin

I know I promised. I said, 'Ask, seek, knock and you will find.' You say, 'But I have found loss. I have found dispossession. I have found letting go.' And I would say to you that until you dispossess what you have you can never possess what I want to give to you. Until you surrender your understanding, you will never get My wisdom. You would say, 'Lord, what is at the end of this process?' — Mark Chironna

sound of it. Everything was more echoey here, including the falls, which were somewhere off to the side. In front of them, in the camera's light, Carter could see the edge of a pond or a pool of some kind. It was impossible to know how big it was, but it was feeding the stream they'd followed inside. — Jeff Probst

I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors. — Verne Troyer

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting. — Dejan Stojanovic

The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three ... And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere! — Fyodor Dostoevsky

What if the genetically superior male is actually a bit of a dickhead? — Jojo Moyes

The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense. — Darrell Huff

How does one address ... the master of the vampire executioners? My lord? Your grace? Your stakeness? — Colleen Gleason

What makes you think he won't freak? He is my father and I'm his only little girl."
"Betcha five bucks."
"Deal," I said with a laugh. "He is gonna freak and I'll take your money and buy a honey bun with a diet cream soda and I won't share with you," I sang. — Shelly Crane

The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it's the police officers, — Christopher Dorner

Isn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney is suing me? — Cindy Sheehan

Heaven is a place nearby, so there's no need to say goodbye. — Lene Marlin