Jamie Fraser Outlander Quotes & Sayings

Look back, hold a torch to light the recesses of the dark. Listen to the footsteps that echo behind, when you walk alone.
All the time the ghosts flit past and through us, hiding in the future. We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.
Each ghost comes unbidden from the misty grounds of dream and silence.
Our rational minds say, "No, it isn't."
But another part, an older part, echoes always softly in the dark, "Yes, but it could be. — Diana Gabaldon

With cancer, there's always that doubt-that unknown. The only thing you can do is be positive. — Merril Hoge

And what's wrong wi' the way ye smell?' he said heatedly. 'At least ye smelt like a woman, not a damn flower garden. What d'ye think I am, a man or a bumblebee? Would ye wash yourself, Sassenach, so I can get within less than ten feet of ye? — Diana Gabaldon

Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is. — Sylvia Boorstein

If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband to finish risking his stupid neck, I'd use the time to see what I could spot. — Diana Gabaldon

I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side. — Diana Gabaldon

Like Hagar, I would choose to flee my troubles, but Christ asks me, 'Where have you come from and where are you going?' Like Hagar, I only know what I am fleeing. I remain unable to make sense of God's providence, authority, love, or promises in the snapshot of my trial. Only in the larger story do these things become clear. So I sit in the sand, beneath the starless sky, and wait for my change to come. — Ben Palpant

Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug. — Remy De Gourmont

When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time. — Diana Gabaldon

Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current. — Hunter S. Thompson

How hard something is often depends on your vantage point. — Lysa TerKeurst

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another. — Soundarya

Schedule in rest in any pursuit. There's always another peak, but look back and admire the view for a moment. You have to actually practice that - it's a balance. — Christy Haubegger

Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them. — Dacia Maraini

Aye, beg me for mercy, Sassenach. Ye shallna have it, though; not yet. — Diana Gabaldon

When you do something well, this is the best job in the world. — David Thewlis

The man who kills a man kills a man.
The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world. — G.K. Chesterton

I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser — Diana Gabaldon

My husband and I are very different. Our company is called Syzygy Industries, which can mean a pair of opposites. And that's exactly what we are. Yet there is obviously a very strong pull toward each other. — Jamie Lee Curtis

A little drop each day eventually fills the sea. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A man should pay tribute to your body," he said softly... "For you are beautiful, and that is your right. — Diana Gabaldon

Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences. — Diana Gabaldon

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake;
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take! — Omar Khayyam

Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price. — Agatha Christie