Eberhart Quotes & Sayings

A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance. — Mignon G. Eberhart

Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity?
Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all?
Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul
Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity? — Richard Eberhart

We're all animals,' he said. 'Basically, we're all animals. — J.D. Salinger

The long distance hiker, a breed set apart,
From the likes of the usual pack.
He'll shoulder his gear, be hittin' the trail;
Long gone, long 'fore he'll be back. — M.J. Eberhart

Murder is a plant of slow growth ... — Mignon G. Eberhart

My God!" Amaury glared resentfully at the armed men surrounding his own as Castle Eberhart came into view. "See you the gall of the woman?"
Blake hid a smile an shrugged. "'Twould seem your bride would have you safely delivered."
"Safely delivered?" Grimacing,he shook his head. "She sends her man out to fetch me as if I am a stray cow."
"Surely she would not send so many for a cow?"
Amaury glared at his laughing friend.
Blake shrugged. "Well,I have said it afore and-"
"If you say once more that I should refuse to marry her,I will strike you down right here."
"You may try," Blake allowed with a small smile. — Lynsay Sands

A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children." "But they make no sense!" Summer protested "Ah, well," said Ben. "Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it. — Katherine Catmull

If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others. — Richard Eberhart

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. — Richard Eberhart

Doesn't suicide seem a little like going where you haven't been invited? — Richard Eberhart

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. — Robert Browning

There is no gateway to maturity; there is no line that is crossed. Maturity is like a maze, one path leading to another; it is like a great building full of corridors, one turning into another. Did anybody ever reach the end, so there was a clear way ahead, so he could say, now I am rich with knowledge, now I know all the answers? — Mignon G. Eberhart

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants — Richard Eberhart

Reasons
I wish I knew why he left. What his reason were. Why he changed his mind.
For all these years, I have turned it over in my head - all the possibilites - yet none of them make any sense.
And then I think, perhaps it was beacause he never loved me. But that makes the least sense of all. — Lang Leav

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world. — Richard Eberhart

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk. — Mignon G. Eberhart

I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer. — Richard Eberhart

Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet. — Richard Eberhart

The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel. — Mignon G. Eberhart

Style is the perfection of a point of view. — Richard Eberhart

Contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it. — Mignon G. Eberhart

I do not often get involved in litigation, largely because it is often simply impossible to conclude with scientific certainty what caused something to break. The fact that almost every case involves opposing experts just serves to confirm this difficulty. — Mark Eberhart

I want her with me," I said, "and more than that, I want her to want to be with me. — Robert B. Parker

In the Fortune Cookie of Life, I don't want to be known as anonymous. — Julie Eberhart Painter

Life is stranger than any of us expected,
There is a somber, imponderable fate.
Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty. — Richard Eberhart

Our modern, rootless times do seem to be a particularly inhospitable environment for loyalty. We come and go so relentlessly that our friendships can't but come and go too. What sort of loyalty is there in the age of Facebook, when friendship is a costless transaction, a business of flip reciprocity ... Friendship held together by nothing more permanent than hyperlinks is hardly the stuff of selfless fidelity. — Eric Felten

The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them — Frank Eberhart

Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do. — Wes Fesler

Murder is not polite. — Mignon G. Eberhart

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line. — Martin Parr

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. — Richard Eberhart

You would think the fury of aerial bombardment
would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces
Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces.
History, even, does not know what is meant. — Richard Eberhart

Failure or success in business is primarily not determined by mental capacity but by MENTAL ATTITUDES — Walter Dill Scott