Lipman Hearne Quotes & Sayings

This time I really am going to light the world on fire,' she said, laughing. 'I finally have a fucking match. — Kristin Hannah

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it. — Henry David Thoreau

Caxton crawled into the back while Arkeley took the front passenger seat. His fused vertebrae trumped her sprained ribs, he announced. — David Wellington

Intelligence is overrated by any species that has it, and that's provable by the fact that all intelligent species are outlived by a factor of a hundred to one, if not a thousand to one, by nonintelligent species, who don't have the brains or perversity to destroy themselves or their environments. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

We live in a very pluralistic society today. There are Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, atheists, Roman Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and Christians like me. There are a wide variety of religious expressions in this country. I think they all must be treated with respect and none of them must be given priority in the public arena. — John Shelby Spong

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. — Camille Paglia

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year. — David Baldacci

Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose. — Eric L. Haney

I've never thought of you like that,' said Christopher. 'How could I? If you were any other woman, I could tell you I loved you, easily enough, but not you
because you've always seemed to me like a part of myself, and it would be like saying I loved my own eyes or my own mind. But have you ever thought of what it would be to have to live without your mind or your eyes, Kate? To be mad? Or blind? — Elizabeth Marie Pope

Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will. — Blaise Pascal

The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience. — Roger Mudd

It might be that women who have been
nurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taught
to have too much respect — Sherwood Anderson