Brunetti Mysteries Quotes & Sayings

The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces. — Leon Panetta

There is no passion so much transports the
sincerity of judgement as doth anger — Michel De Montaigne

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful. — Joyce Maynard

We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me. — Joe Jamail

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace. — Sandra Chami Kassis

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing. — Bill Crawford

The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever. — Janis Karpinski

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on. — John Hughes

The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely. — Pitirim Sorokin

Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, 'Oh, this pace is terrible!' But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself. — Shunryu Suzuki

A: So you intend to return to your desert?
B: I am not quick moving. I have to wait for myself - it is always late before the water comes to light out of the well of my self, and I often have to endure thirst for longer than I have patience. That is why I go into solitude - so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think as I really think; after a time it always seems as though they want to banish me from myself and rob me of my soul - and I grow angry with everybody and fear everybody. I then require the desert, so as to grow good again. — Friedrich Nietzsche

rapport-building is 'subtlety'. Rapport is the — Owen Fitzpatrick

Don't you think it makes them stronger when you give them someone to despise? — Elizabeth Wein

People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp. — Danielle Steel

It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?" — David Hare