Pournelle Janissaries Quotes & Sayings

I don't know if there is any place on this earth that I belong. — John Jakes

don't want to give the impression that perfectly normal, healthy, thoughtful, and balanced people are not drawn to orchids. I am told they exist. I just didn't have much luck finding them — Eric Hansen

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States. — Frank Chodorov

Somewhere today in time, I died. Conscious of a love cruelly wronged, almost hearing the silent calls beaming from eternity, hearing the sounds of the sea waves breaking at my feet - beckoning me, and it is in those cries, deep inside my fated soul, deep in another life which brings me the allure of: destiny. — J.L. Holtz

If there is a God, I thought, it's a painkiller. — Dan Simmons

It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality ... But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it. — G.K. Chesterton

Sometimes the world begins
To set you up on your feet again
It wipes the tears from your eyes
How will you ever know
The way that circumstances go
Always going to hit you by surprise
I know my past
You were there
In everything I've done
You are the one — Blue Rodeo

Nature was as full of cruelty as of beauty, he knew all too well. — Nora Roberts

Flowers reconnect us to our own beautiful and unique essence as human beings. They wake up our positive qualities so that we feel them and they begin to emanate from us, just as each flower radiates its own unique quality. — Katie Hess

That was the last cruel irony of Tobias's life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save. — Cassandra Clare

The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things. — Susan Hill

We are gonna have tons and tons of opportunities to meet gorgeous ladies that get so aroused by the thought of marriage that they'll throw their inhibitions to the wind. — Vince Vaughn

I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks. — Roberta Smith

Henry watched her go. And then he looked down at the sword he was carrying. When it came to weapons, he thought sadly, sometimes words could be just as hurtful, and just as forbidden. — Violet Haberdasher