Esterhazy Peter Quotes & Sayings

He kissed me and then pulled back, looking very serious. "I love you, Mason."

There it was. The magical phrase. In every book I'd ever read it was accompanied by either tears or long descriptions of deep stirrings in the chest that sounded suspiciously like coronaries. This wasn't like that at all. It was just a simple statement of how things were. "I love you, too."

"Good," he said with an easy smile. — Nick Pageant

From the standpoint of food production, storage, handling, and the Lord's counsel, wheat should have high priority. Water, of course, is essential. Other basics could include honey or sugar, legumes, milk products or substitutes, and salt or its equivalent. The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah. — Ezra Taft Benson

I had to introduce a lot of people into my writing environment which I thought at first I would find really difficult, but I actually found that I loved it. It meant that I was meeting different people; it meant that I was expressing myself in different ways. — Ella Henderson

How are you? My father could say this quicker than anybody. He was always the first to say how are you, provided the occasion called for it, and he saw his chance. Thanks to this skill, he was made ambassador to England ... — Peter Esterhazy

The gift of being able to speak with a holy God because of the righteousness we gain through Jesus on the cross is an indescribable miracle! — Alisa Hope Wagner

When you are interested, You do what is convenient. When you are committed, You do whatever it takes. — Laureen Wishom

Is not literature meant to speak of our being a thousand different kinds of things, at times creating even this diversity? If literature gives up this purpose, this duty, it renounces all claim to legitimacy. I am Hungarian. I am Slovene. I am Serbian. You do not need literature for sentences like that. A bureaucrat will do, and a rubber stamp. A border guard. An Army. — Peter Esterhazy

Unfortunately we did not attend Voltaire's dictum to define our terms before we began. The result was disagreement on all issues. — James Aldridge

History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain. — Peter Esterhazy

We are all pioneers in the Age of Aquarius. No man can give a man anything other than love. No man can give a man anything other than hope. No man can give a man anything but service. The only thing you can do is act like a forklift-go into the dirt and lift the other person and put him on track, so he can proceed. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

What if it was enough to just stand here in the arms of someone who ared about her, to let his simple affection steady her for a little while? it felt so good just to be held. — Lauren Kate

Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century. — Peter Esterhazy

Be strong to stand alone. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Like a floating feather in the air, take life very lightly and joyfully adjust to the flow of life. — Debasish Mridha

I came to feel that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least three contemporary novelists who deserve the Nobel: Peter Nadas, Peter Esterhazy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai. — Garth Risk Hallberg

When I make love to you,' he said in a low whisper right by my ear, 'I want to be able to give you one hundred percent of my attention. Right now, with the Unit on our tail, I'm going to be giving you less than fifty percent. I've got one eye on the door and one on you, not to mention a gun under the pillow. Not exactly the accessory I imagined. — Sarah Alderson

As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers. — John Henrik Clarke

As the philosopher Walter Benjamin put it: "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism."24 — Karen Armstrong

History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires. — Peter Esterhazy