Ludlum Books Quotes & Sayings

I hope these essays have been comforting to someone reading it if for no other reason than to watch me openly admit I have no idea what I'm doing. I suspect most people feel that way, even if they don't fess up. — Sara Bareilles

I don't want to live with regrets," Eddie tells Josh. — Thomas Grant Bruso

The coolness of Buddhism isn't indifference but the distance one gains on emotions, the quiet place from which to regard the turbulence. From far away you see the pattern, the connections, and the thing as whole, see all the islands and the routes between them. Up close it all dissolves into texture and incoherence and immersion, like a face going out of focus just before a kiss. — Rebecca Solnit

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. — Richard Strauss

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. — Frederick Douglass

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily. — Lemony Snicket

The unlimited power that lies sleeping within you, let it slumber no more. — Anthony Robins

It's fine. I hardly think about it now. It's long gone. Yet there is sometimes the shadow of a shadow, and when that happens I wonder if it could come back. And I don't know, because I don't know what caused it in the first place. My ohysche was turned inside out and shaken, but they never got to the bottom of why. — Susan Hill

Children live life as a controlled experiment. — Jennifer Senior

There's been another mass shooting by a crazy person, and liberals still refuse to consider institutionalizing the dangerously mentally ill. — Ann Coulter

Fine, be a big dumb man about it. I'm only thinking of your health and well-being. — Anonymous

The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and driven organizations: You have gone far enough. We are going to turn the world upside down. Your science is going to be shown up for what it is, nothing more than a pleasant metaphor usefully extrapolated into the production of toys for healthy children. That's what science is good for.
It is not some meta-theory at whose feet every point of view from astrology to acupressure to channeling need be laid to have the hand of science announce thumbs up or thumbs down. — Terence McKenna

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks? — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money. — Gene Tierney

And what about ageing? Do men force the fear of ageing upon us
or are we ourselves terrified because we only know one kind of power
the power of youthful beauty?
Isn't it possible that if we became comfortable with other forms of female power, men might too? In her wonderful futurist novel, He, She, and It, Marge Piercy imagines a cyborg who is taught to love the bodies of older women. A delicious proposal
because it tells that whatever we may imagine can come true. Women often hate their own bodies. Sometimes I think that the most important things about having at least one relationship with someone of your own gender
especially if you are a woman
is to confront the female self-hatred and turn it into self-love. — Erica Jong