Letters From The Ledge Quotes & Sayings

It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route. — Randy West

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass. — Thomas Adams

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked. — Madeleine Stowe

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. — Ted Turner

Sometimes a malfunctioning test setup actually gives the tested system a chance to show what it can do in an unrehearsed emergency. During a test of an Apollo escape system in the 1960s, the escape system successfully got the capsule clear of a malfunctioning test rocket. — Henry Spencer

Why would you be curious as to where he found me, my lord? Are you in the market? — Renee Ahdieh

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it. — James McBride

I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment. — John Newton

To be rich or well-born was a crime: men were prosecuted for holding or for refusing office: merit of any kind meant certain ruin. Nor were the Informers more hated for their crimes than for their prizes: some carried off a priesthood or the consulship as their spoil, others won offices and influence in the imperial household: the hatred and fear they inspired worked universal havoc. Slaves were bribed against their masters, freedmen against their patrons, and, if a man had no enemies, he was ruined by his friends. — Tacitus

Night and the day, when united,
Bring forth the beautiful light. — Victor Hugo

I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think. — Kris Carr

Speculating and predicting what lies beyond the boundary ins fascinating. Finding out is even more fascinating. — Wallace H. Tucker

Unless you know yourself, what else can you know? — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Brendan stopped reading. The words had melted into a liquid blur ... In his possession was a box full of information that would likely fill in the gaps and help him to wrap his brain around the whys of her death. And yet, there was really only one question that mattered, and Tommy had already answered it. — Lynda Meyers

The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated. — Samuel Smiles

When your defenses are down, it's alarming and beautiful - all that strength contained in a glass jar of innocence." He swallowed. "I've loved you since the moment you realized the astronomical odds of us meeting like that, because in that brief second, I watched you suddenly open your heart to the possibility of something magical happening - something unexpected. — Lynda Meyers