Esco Quotes & Sayings

I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott

People ought to be one of two things, young or dead. — Dorothy Parker

Can there be any act of creation that does not first destroy? Villages fall. Cities rise. Humans die. Life springs from the soil wherein they lie. Is not any act of destruction, should Time enough pass, an act of creation? — Karen Marie Moning

I think faster and, maybe more importantly, more efficiently. Not only as the game goes on, but as the season goes on. — Dan Jansen

When I was a boy, I went to war searching for glory. I didn't find it.
I came here, thinking I'd find glory if I built a ranching empire or a thriving town.
Instead I discovered that I didn't even know what glory was, not until you smiled at me for the first time with no fear in your eyes ...
A hundred years from now, everything I've worked so hard to build will be nothing more than dust blowing in the wind, but if I can spend my life loving you, I'll die a wealthy man, a contented man.
-Dallas to Dee — Lorraine Heath

The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows. — Marge Piercy

He had no secrets left. No defenses. He had nothing, except that same vast, dark, empty, infinite ache that had resided in him for as long as he could remember. An endless flight of stairs, leading down and down into the cold, dark pit of his soul. Now, at long last, he'd reached the absolute rock bottom. And there she was, just standing there. She'd been there all along. — Tessa Dare

My mission is to put France back on its feet. The priority is employment. Efforts have to be made, but those efforts must be made fairly. — Francois Hollande

I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history. — Marie Brennan

Family
Even though you're stuck with them, at the same time they're also stuck with you. — Sarah Dessen

I came to the conclusion, that if my advice wouldn't be taken by those who needed it most and was stolen by those who could well afford to pay for it, that I would hereafter give advice only to myself and always sell it to others. — William H. McMaster

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. — Winston Churchill

And they realize it is just the two of them now, when the father has gone and the children are left alone in the funhouse, they stand in silence, the fat lady and the short man with one arm, and try to look only at the mirrors, but a gust of happiness that seems to have no borders, bliss without an edge, envelops them, and exhausted by the stress of desire, hilarious with happiness, they turn toward each other and kiss (and kiss and kiss), and their turn, their kiss, was shattered, multiplied in the mirrors above. — Susan Sontag

I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Rothman gave me another sharp look, and then he looked down at his desk. 'Lou' he said softly, 'do you know how many days a year an ironworker works? Do you know what his life expectancy is? Did you ever see an old ironworker? Did you ever stop to figure that there's all kinds of dying, but only one way of being dead? — Jim Thompson