Ron Schwab > Quotes

“While we’re young, our lives are shaped by environment and heredity and all kinds of things in the world around us that we can’t control. But there comes a time in our lives when we have the ability to take charge and mold our own life into what we want it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, sex, or plain bad luck. We all have the power and ability to recognize what we are today and then to determine what we will be tomorrow.”
― Ron Schwab, Dismal Trail

“The only thing he won’t excuse is whining about the cards life has dealt you. He would say get off your ass and find a different game or learn how to win at the one you are playing.”
― Ron Schwab, Old Dogs

“soon as I speak with Grant, I am certain we will be both be heading out to the sawmill.” “That’s where I’m going from here,” Ozzie said. “I will see you later then.” Less than an hour later, she walked into Grant Coolidge’s study at their ranch house some two miles from Lockwood. Her husband was at his desk absorbed with working the typewriter keys that spread printed words across the page. With the aid of a few books, he was a self-taught typist who had finally surrendered to the new edict of most publishers that manuscripts be submitted in typewritten format. His fingers did not sweep the keys nearly so fast as Ginger’s at the office, but he no longer suffered the frustration of the early days and was rather proud of his finished product. “Grant,” she said. Startled, he looked up and smiled. “I didn’t hear you come in.” “Between that typewriter’s clacking and your concentration, you turn deaf when you’re writing.” He pulled his timepiece from his trouser pocket and looked at it. “It’s not three o’clock yet. You’re never home this early.” She sat down in the captain’s chair at the side of his desk. “Believe me, right now I would rather be at the office.” She related the information the deputy had given her, while Grant listened, stone-faced and seemingly impassive. She suspected, however, that his mind was racing, but Grant Coolidge was not”
― Ron Schwab, Trouble

“the doctors say is vital to his pulling through. But he is going to be a long time recovering.” “I heard he can’t walk.” Grant had forgotten Wally Benson was driving the buckboard that picked up Trouble at the river. “I don’t think anybody can say for sure. In his shape, I don’t think any man would be walking.” “I mean he got shot in the back, and it tore his backbone to pieces. You fished him out of the river and was there with him. You doctored him some, so I figure you should know.” “I staunched the bleeding of the wounds. He took a backshot, but I wouldn’t know how much damage there was. I didn’t see any sign of a shattered backbone. I think the gossips might be exaggerating some.” “You ain’t going to tell me nothing more, are you?” “Enos, I don’t know more than I have told you. I really don’t. I’m sure you will be informed when the doctors know something.” “Humph. Do you know you’re being followed?” Grant turned his head and looked down Main Street. “I don’t see anybody.” “You don’t think the feller would stand in the middle of the street waving at you, do you? He took cover between the barber shop and the bootmaker’s place once he seen where you was headed. Likely, he’s got a horse hitched someplace”
― Ron Schwab, Trouble

“I wish other whites could see this side of the Comanche. Perhaps the killing wouldn't come so easily. But perhaps the Comanche should see other sides of the whites, as well. I wonder . . . does anyone ever win a war? Yet, there are things worth fighting for.”
― Ron Schwab, Deal with the Devil

“Well, there are times when a man turns a woman's brain to mush.”
― Ron Schwab, Summer's Child

“get off your ass and find a different game or learn how to win at the one you are playing.”
― Ron Schwab, Old Dogs

“were”
― Ron Schwab, Mouth of Hell

“owl hoot trail,”
― Ron Schwab, The Accidental Sheriff

“A man’s got to choose between the white horse and the black horse. You ain’t going no place if you don’t pick one. Either will likely get you where you want. One might just be a tougher ride.”
― Ron Schwab, Dismal Trail

“we need to tend to what we can do something about.”
― Ron Schwab, The Prince of Santa Fe

“the”
― Ron Schwab, The Accidental Sheriff

“we never get too old to out-dumb our last dumbest stunt.”
― Ron Schwab, Old Dogs

“It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.”
― Ron Schwab, Trouble

“There was either an afterlife or there was not. His life was much too busy for him to dwell on the issue. It was the process of dying that sometimes worried him. He aspired to die bravely and stoically, but he was not confident he had such courage, and, of course, would not know until the test came. And perhaps it was upon him now.”
― Ron Schwab, Hell's Fire

“altruistic”
― Ron Schwab, The Law Wranglers: Western Box Set

“Ad lib. It’s out of our hands, and all we can do is react. That’s mostly what life is: reacting to what happens to us. We just like to delude ourselves that we are in charge. But we can choose how we react.”
― Ron Schwab, Grit

“You are always at the mercy of fools and scoundrels in the bureaucracy,”
― Ron Schwab, Trouble

“The Stoic Marcus Aurelius said that life is the sum of all our acts, and that we should be judged by that totality and not by our worst performance.”
― Ron Schwab, Ghost of the Guadalupe

“and, thus, be more inclined to patronize the enterprises. Politicians are constantly using public relations to curry favor . . . often by taking the money from the people and then giving it back to them in a way that the recipient thinks the politician has made a gift. The strategy is used very cleverly by some, and it may not always be done with honesty and sincerity, but it often accomplishes its purpose.”
― Ron Schwab, The Law Wranglers: Western Box Set

“Fight for your life but know when to retreat and pull in your horns. Survive first, so you can live to fight another day. Give up a battle now and then to win the war." She”
― Ron Schwab, The Law Wranglers: Western Box Set

“discovering things about ourselves that we didn’t know were buried deep in our souls.”
― Ron Schwab, The Prince of Santa Fe

“We don’t ever really know people, do we? And we’re always changing,”
― Ron Schwab, The Prince of Santa Fe

“a person is never too old to be the person they might have been.”
― Ron Schwab, Dismal Trail

“disappeared”
― Ron Schwab, Old Dogs

“only a limited number of the weapons had been manufactured. The rifle’s chamber held fifteen cartridges, and the Confederates called it “the rifle the Yankees load on Sunday and shoot all week.”
― Ron Schwab, The Law Wranglers: Western Box Set

“going”
― Ron Schwab, Old Dogs

“She's as sharp as a porcupine's quill,”
― Ron Schwab, The Law Wranglers: Western Box Set

“Public relations are things that people do to make others look upon them favorably. This is something planned to obtain favorable results. Businesses might donate money to the poor or spend money for community projects, not necessarily because they want to be charitable, but because they want the public to look upon them with admiration or appreciation”
― Ron Schwab, The Law Wranglers: Western Box Set

“hand information that is untainted by any personal agenda.”
― Ron Schwab, Cut Nose