Henry Lawson Short Stories Quotes & Sayings

The world is terrible," said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them. — Cassandra Clare

The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation. — Mark Helprin

Your life is too valuable, your calling too great, & your God too awesome to waste your life on what doesn't matter. — Craig Groeschel

I used to be called 'a Mexican guy who can walk a pack of dogs.' Now the world calls me 'The Dog Whisperer'. — Cesar Millan

In response to [the Philistine] threat [in the ninth century B.C.], the Hebrews could no longer rely on the leadership of 'judges,' ad hoc military leaders (some of them, peculiarly, women; perhaps reflecting as feminists claim, and earlier matriarchal society). — Norman F. Cantor

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted. — James Cook

We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change. — Newt Gingrich

I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy. — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. — Joan Didion

He took the slide of and, before she could stop him, removed the glass top and licked the sample.
She fought the urge to gag. He didn't seem at all bothered. He stood quite still, closing his eyes, and then said, "Hmmm. A bit salty, bitter aftertaste ... iron ... hydroxide." He smiled then, and looked at her as if he was quite proud of himself. "Definitely iron hydroxide. That is a binding agent, is it not?"
"You are insane," she said. "You can't go around ... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just ... unsanitary."
"Life is unsanitary," he said. — Rachel Caine