Freemont Quotes & Sayings

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Why does a heart wear its eyes
into hell
like slivers of false sunshine — Fanny Howe

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world. — Ted Olson

And how I flattered myself
From time to time with proving to myself
Nothing in you could be unknown to me.
You don't belong to the mind's calculations,
And you disproved each of my demonstrations,
Since to be unexpected is your truth. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time. — Karl Barth

Captain John Sommers joined his brother and sister in the library, Do you remember Jacob Todd?
-The cad who defrauded us with that yarn about missions in Tierra del Fuego? asked Jeremy Sommers.
-The same ... He changed his name. Now he calls himself Jacob Freemont, and he's a newspaperman in San Francisco.
-Egad! So it is true that in the United States any scoundrel may begin a new life?
-Jacob Todd paid for his offense several times over. I think it is splendid that there is a country where a man can have a second chance. — Isabel Allende

Too much positive is either scared or stupid or both. Reality is uncertain. — Robert B. Parker

looked at Jock Dundas, who was — Alexander McCall Smith

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. — William Gibson

The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities. — Peter Alliss

Thoughts are circular, they don't take you anywhere. They don't have feet-they can't gain any ground. They can trap you if you don't eventually stand up and make a move. — Katie Kacvinsky

Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy ... — Christy Hall

Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. — John Mason Neale

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth? — Lloyd Alexander

I wanna be the smile you put on your face.
I wanna be your hands when you say your grace.
I wanna be whatever is your favorite place, oh
I just wanna be close — Avant

What the hell are you stopping for, asshole?" Freemont hollered at the car in front of them. "People usually stop for red lights. You should try it sometime. — Kerrelyn Sparks

Psychoanalysis gets interesting when it shifts the focus from making us more intelligible to ourselves to helping us become more curious about how strange we really are. And so, I would argue, does art. — Maggie Nelson