Quotes & Sayings About Finny's Death

Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it. — Robert McCloskey

Change is the law. Stability and consistency are illusions, temporary in any case, a heroic achievement of human will and persistence at best. When we want things to stay the same, we'll always wind up playing catch-up. — John Brockman

Damn it, MacRieve, if you keep calling me kitten, then I'm going to start calling you something equivalent, like hound dog - and then we'll both be losers. — Kresley Cole

If happiness is the highest good of a rational nature, and if what can be taken from you in any way cannot be the highest (for what cannot be taken away ranks higher than what can), it is obvious that the fluidity of Fortune cannot hope to win happiness. 24 — Boethius

When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one. — Ursula K. Le Guin

In the bottle the acids were long ago resolved; the imperial dye had softened with time, as the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards, was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock. — Vilmos Zsigmond

You can look after this knight's soul, Father. The sins of the flesh though - they're all mine. — Mark Lawrence

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. — Albert Schweitzer

You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her. — Ada Leverson