Barney Live In New York City Quotes & Sayings

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse. — Mario Puzo

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather. — Irvine Welsh

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter. — Jo Walton

If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening. — Veronica Purcell

It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for them. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done. — Mary Steenburgen

When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least." — Martin Luther

The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation ... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die. — Bernard Cornwell

I went to my room one day and locked the door and got down upon my knees before Almighty God and prayed to Him mightily for victory at Gettysburg. I told Him that this war was His, and our cause His cause, that we could not stand another Fredericksburg or Chancellorsville. Then and there I made a solemn vow to Almighty God that if He would stand by our boys at Gettysburg, I would stand by Him, and He did stand by you boys, and I will stand by him. And after that, I don't know how it was, and I cannot explain it, soon a sweet comfort crept into my soul. The feeling came that God had taken the whole business into His own hands, and things would go right at Gettysburg, and that was why I had no fears about you. — Abraham Lincoln