Duke Laertius Quotes & Sayings

Anything that requires thought is just too much. — Katherine Shindle

Matt, you are suffering from a disease of youth - you expect moral problems to have nice, neat, black-and-white answers. — Robert A. Heinlein

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it. — Cormac McCarthy

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News. — Leslie Cockburn

I have always been confused about how to touch another person. — Brandon Freels

Dear Hope, I NEVER thought Id see the day when two of your daily e-mails sandwiched a message from none other than PAUL PARLIPIANO. My crush to end all crushes! Gay man of my dreams! OOOH! — Megan McCafferty

I'm the son and heir to the Duke of Sardis. I could walk into that ballroom naked with Alcibiades balanced on my head, and they'd still want to marry me."
"Most likely. But if you try it, I'll horsewhip you on the front steps. — Rosamund Hodge

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you. — Meher Baba

It's like
this is going to sound weird, but it's like we're in a movie and every time I'm with you, the camera zooms in for a close-up and we're the only two people in the frame. Do you know what I mean? You're the close-up. — Malinda Lo

I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd understand the scale and intensity of your feelings and act accordingly. That seemed fair to me, as if fairness were a measure the universe cared anything about. — Emma Cline

Dug looked for a flicker of humanity in her eyes. Nope, not a spark. "Do you know," he said, "I've always thought that people are about as happy as they decide to be." "What?" "Nothing. — Angus Watson

If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you'll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions about the same book. And that's how it should be; we're not robots. — Shawnda Currie

I've said it's hard. Here's how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory's waters drowns a little. — Mary Karr