Persway Quotes & Sayings

When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again. — Robert A. Heinlein

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious. — Henry Ward Beecher

I close my mouth and shut my eyes. I can feel the tears building the tears building up again. I beg myself not to cry, not here, not in assembly with Sally right next to me so desperate for me to crumble. I feel a finger tap on my left shoulder. Sally, to my right doesn't notice. I look back. It's Renee.
'Welcome back,' she mouths. Apparently not bothered that a teacher might see.
I smile for the first time in nine days. — Dawn O'Porter

I smiled at his hair. It was standing out all over the place, wherever it had escaped the elastic bands holding the mask on. "Take — Elle Casey

We've got this heat going on, that's all. If it's all the same to you, I'd rather not go into that end of
things."
"Oh, it's all the same to me. You're both adults and you got two working brains between you. Both
of you were raised right, so what you do is your own business. Next time, though, lock the damn door
first. — Nora Roberts

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other. — Horace Walpole

I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers. — Quentin Tarantino

Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market. — Buzz Aldrin

(Logic meet feelings. The two of you will never see eye to eye. Let the lifelong catfight commence.) — R.K. Lilley

My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step out for groceries, they will ask me, "Hi, do you have any kids?" and then, "Why not, don't you like kids?"
"I like kids," I will explain. "I like kids very much." And when I almost run over them with my car, in my driveway, I will feel many different things. — Lorrie Moore

Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey? — Ken Griffey Jr.

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility. — Kate Millett

In constant view keeps mightily true an honest resolve to do. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows. — William Shakespeare

A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't like to win because down deep inside they don't want to win. — Donald Trump