Quillers Quotes & Sayings

The notion that people rose up to meet a crisis was wrong. They defaulted to what they'd trained to do. — Terry Mixon

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair. — Napoleon Hill

He..said..in the oratory to which he was prone that they had witnessed a thing against which time would not prevail. He meant a thing to be remembered, but the young apostate by the rail at his elbow had already begun to sicken at the slow seeping of life. He could see the shape of the skull through the old man's flesh. Hear sand in the glass. Lives running out like something foul, night-soil from a cesspipe, a measured dripping in the dark. The clock has run, the horse has run, and which has measured which? — Cormac McCarthy

Bravery is looking into her eyes without shivering and compromising. — M.F. Moonzajer

Once we distinguish race and culture, the way is open to acknowledge that not all cultures are equally admirable, and that not all cultures can exist comfortably side by side. To — Roger Scruton

Never met such a Gorgon ... I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair. — Oscar Wilde

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? — Jodi Picoult