Walter Tevis Novels Quotes & Sayings

I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now. — Laura Kightlinger

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation. — Samuel Johnson

What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible. — Henning Mankell

But that's who I was when I drank, a careless, greedy fucktard. She — L. H. Cosway

everyone who wants to live a godly life in King Jesus will be persecuted, — N. T. Wright

If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it. — Peter Drucker

But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting the lives of millions of youth. It is a sickness that comes of a loss of values, of an abandonment of moral absolutes. The virus which has infected them comes of leaderless families, leaderless schools, leaderless communities. It comes of an attitude that says, "We will not teach moral values. We will leave the determination of such to the individual." — Gordon B. Hinckley