Eleanora Tevis Quotes & Sayings

Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all. — Samuel Johnson

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out. — Orson Scott Card

It's either food or blood, Ethan.And given thats it's just me and you in this car right now, food would be considerably less complicated, don't you think? — Chloe Neill

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery. — Grant-Lee Phillips

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. — E. M. Forster

I find that people ... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt. — Jon Favreau

There is nothing left to seek for in this world when it can be exchanged for another one. No thought of gain or loss, winning or losing, success or failure ever had any meaning. Fantasy is not real and dreaming is not Being One. You are ready to Awaken to Oneness. And as you awaken the whole world awakens as well. For the world was never more than a misperception. As perception becomes whole, the single mind sees only wholeness. At last you are ready to see with Inner Vision, and you realize that physical sight was nothing but the illusion of being in the dark. The Light has come and it is time to rejoice! It is time! — David Hoffmeister

Now this girl was about twenty-one years old. A sweet little coed. Spends a night with a married man. Goes home the next day and tells her mama and daddy. Don't ask me why. Maybe just to rub their faces in it. They decide she needs a lesson. Whole family drives out into the desert, right out to that spot we just passed. All three of them plus the girl's pet dog. Papa tells the girl to dig a shallow grave. Mama gets down on her hands and knees and holds the dog by the collar. When the girl is all through digging, papa gives her a .22 caliber revolver and tells her to shoot the dog. A real touching family scene. Make a good calendar for some religious group to give away. The girl puts the weapon to her temple and kills herself. Now isn't that a heartwarming story? Restores my faith in just about everything. — Don DeLillo

By profession an observer of tones and gestures, — Walter Scott

Rest is for the dead. — Thomas Carlyle

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away. — Frank Chodorov

In life, we must choose to quiet ourselves and go through a period of reflection, an instance in time for evaluating our strengths vs. our weaknesses, an interval in time for recognizing the real from deceit, a moment in time for making necessary life adjustments for personal welfare. It's through such, we begin to know ourselves. — D. Allen Miller

Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's air force. — Ahmed Zewail

Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds. — Nami Mun