Ulstermanbooks Quotes & Sayings

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor. — Napoleon Bonaparte

It's very, very difficult when you have to prepare for something that might not ever happen. — Anthony Fauci

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years. — Nobuo Uematsu

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people. — Shirley Manson

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. — Euripides

Among reasonable men problems of business could always be solved. — Mario Puzo

Love's not a faulty toaster. You can't take it apart and study the pieces, replace a part and figure out how it all fits back together. You just feel it. — Nora Roberts

Fit in here, in my palm, in my shadow, don't be bigger than my idea of you, don't be more beautiful than i can accept, don't be more human than i am willing to allow you to be and be quiet, you're too loud, even your un-belonging is loud. quiet your dreams, your voice, your hair, quiet your skin, quiet your displacement, quiet your longing, your colour, quiet your walk, your eyes. who said you could look at me like that? who said you could exist without permission? why are you even here? why aren't you shrinking? i think of you often. you vibrate. you walk into a room and the temperature changes. i lean in and almost recognise you as human. but, no. we can't have that. — Warsan Shire

What I want to propose to you is that it is possible to achieve the freedom to have any viewpoint you choose and therefore any reality. — Deepak Chopra

In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism. — Loretta Chase

You are the only person with the power to control your thoughts and attitudes. No one can touch you in here," I say, pointing to my head. "You don't have to change who you are because of what has happened to you. — Gemma Liviero

Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was Pete Wolinsky, an unscrupulous private detective I'd met years before through Byrd-Shine Investigations, where I'd served my apprenticeship. I worked for Ben Byrd and Morley Shine for three years, amassing the six thousand hours I needed for my license. The two were old-school private eyes, hard-working, tireless, and inventive. While Ben and Morley did business with Pete on occasion, they didn't think much of him. He was morally shabby, disorganized, and irresponsible with money. — Sue Grafton

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. — David Brinkley

At 30-below, mushers will begin to put fleece jackets on their more sensitive dogs. Males are affixed with pile jockstraps, "peter heaters," to guard against frostbite. — John Balzar