Brian Mulroney Nafta Quotes & Sayings

In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves. — Rolf Edberg

Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk. — M.L. Stedman

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China. — Nelson DeMille

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another? — Jeanette Winterson

If a person did all the work of a slave but had the option of quitting at any time without being physically restrained or punished, we would not call him a slave - and this violence was often a regular part of a slave's life. — Steven Pinker

I grew up watching stuff with Jim Carey, Robin Williams and Sandra Bullock in them. I've always been attracted to the actors who are a little more off beat. — Amanda Crew

The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers' attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law. — Andrew Rosenthal

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks. — Georges Duhamel

Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine. — Tove Jansson

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. — H.L. Mencken

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone. — Michael Crichton

Watch out, brothers, so that there won't be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God. Hebrews 3:12 — Beth Moore

I get emails from students at programs all over the country who want to transfer to Iowa, and in most cases their frustrations have absolutely nothing to do with the programs they're attending. They have to do with the growing pains that they're undergoing as writers and with the growing pains that our own genre is constantly undergoing. — John D'Agata

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses ... — Agnes Repplier