Lanning Quotes & Sayings

Zach had been on the receiving end of a few of Lanning's ass-chewings back in the day. They were epic sagas of righteous fury and perfectly applied touches of profanity. It was like being verbally disemboweled. — Christopher Farnsworth

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth. — Dan Brown

Those sentences are short. They tell the truth. Sometimes it is a very boring truth. Sometimes we wish we had not heard the truth. Then we are caught by surprise when there is a sudden lyrical touch that blooms before our eyes like the buds on the willow brush coming out green. Then back to telling the truth. — George Lanning

There are as many minds as there are heads, so there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. Leo Tolstoy — Les And Leslie Parrott

let me tell you i'm in love with you. let me tell you that the first thing i do when i wake is think of you. let me be completely honest about this-- about what you mean to me.
let me take it there without ruining everything. — AVA.

This autumn-
why am I growing old?
bird disappearing among clouds. — Matsuo Basho

His wrists ached. When they stopped hurting, it would mean the storm had definitely arrived, because when the pressure was high, there wasn't any pain.
Just massive destruction - a typical metaphor for his life. — S.E. Jakes

The bathroom. An ingenious idea.
When we reached it, I turned to Noah.
"I'm going to be in here for a while. You probably don't want to wait."
I only briefly caught the horrified expression on his face before I pushed open the door with overwhelming force. Win. — Michelle Hodkin

But one cannot avenge a death, not really. One can only try to honor the memory of the dead by furthering their life's work to the best of one's ability. — Delphine Dryden

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. — Martin Luther King Jr.

People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds. — Jonathan Haidt

I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy world. That's why I started writing songs and stories from a very young age. I'd much rather walk around anonymously cooking up tales than face the people that I have known forever. — Jenny Lewis

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is. — Laura Dekker

If you're truly open, you'll put every single thing you think is true on the line. And in doing so, you live in questions, not answers. — Gail Brenner

And too intense a longing, everyone knows, can lead to poor decisions, rash actions, hopes that become outsized and in turn deform reality — Chang-rae Lee

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer. — Matt Taibbi

One example was the assertion that a seven-year FBI study revealed no evidence of organized cult or ritual activity in the United States. In reality there is no such study. The day following the ABC program, my office contacted the FBI and requested a copy of the alleged study.
The bureau responded in writing indicating that no such study existed.
[referring to the Lanning report - Lanning, K. V. (1992)
Investigator's guide to allegations of "ritual" child abuse. Quantico, VA: National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime.] — Pamela Sue Perskin

If every hero stopped to think about all the what-ifs in his path, none of us would ever take one step beyond our own doorways. — Esther M. Friesner