Sma Raymond F Chandler Quotes & Sayings

I'm trying to abandon the present, but I don't even have the skills to master the past. — Lindsey Leavitt

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side. — Thomas Frank

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle. — Honore De Balzac

Because I wasn't anything anymore. Not anythingI love or know or care about. Because thou shalt not kill, Kade. Thou shalt not kill. With all my heart I believed this. And I killed. So what am I now? And why should I live? How am I even alive? Because if this is what our lives are
if doing this to others before they do it to us is all our lives are
we're already dead. Honest to God I feel it, Kade. I'm dead. The hell with me. — David James Duncan

God is an Indian giver who gives only occasionally. — Jack Kerouac

Motherfucker," he groaned. "No Gamble, and I'm stuck in a class with not one, or even two, but three untouchables. This is going to suck ... ass. — Linda Kage

When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films. — Arjun Rampal

Halt looked up at the trees above him.
"Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees.
Naturally, they didn't answer. — John Flanagan

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream. — Theodore Sturgeon

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest. — Florynce Kennedy

I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them ... It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks. — Annie Leibovitz

I had fallen in love with California. — DeForest Kelley

I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade. — John Catsimatidis

It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today. — Viktor E. Frankl

But that's the point. We wouldn't even have wars if adults followed the rules they learned as children. — Cat Winters