Cory Weaklend > Cory's Quotes

“Happiness from long ago that hasn’t carried into today turns into a sadness that’s too much to bear.”
― J.S. Latshaw, A Gallery of Mothers

“Each time she glanced in his direction, she was struck with the fact that this measly slip of a man had had the power to destroy her husband’s career. Every bit of loathing she had for him was there on display for Willum to take in.”
― Kathleen Lopez, Thirteen for Dinner

“Mr. Park’s home, which doubled as his office, was small, dark, and stank of old man. Although Mr. Park was not that old, he was cheap and unmarried. And that smell, and the smell of old man, are easily confused.”
― J.K. Franko

“He still wore, in the warming barracks, a muskrat cap with earlaps. Under it his eyes were gray as agates, as sudden as an elbow in the solar plexus.”
― Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow

“Charlie said that death was beautiful, because people feared death.”
― Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter

“Finders were keepers unless title was proven.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave. ”
― Leif Enger

“I know what you’re going through is terrifying and unfair and really hard. But you have to go through it. Right now, you’re just standing still. You’re sinking in it. Let me hold your hand and go through it with you.”
― Lisa Genova, Inside the O'Briens

“Home at last, and my little ranch house looks mighty plain, but it is home to me and I am glad to see it.”
― Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories

“If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it.”
― Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else’s web. Sometimes I think that’s why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There’s a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control….”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“Gandhi himself ultimately rejected the phrase “passive resistance,” which he associated with weakness, preferring satyagraha, the term he coined to mean “firmness in pursuit of truth.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Ross said, “They play even during an attack. Not very good. But inspiring. Have you heard the Rebel yell?” Fremantle nodded. “Godawful sound. I expect they learned it from Indians.”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

“What is this insurmountable barrier round him? What's it made of? Where did it come from?”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

“I think instead of opposing systematically any administration, running down their characters and opposing all their measures, right or wrong, we ought to support every administration as far as we can in justice.”
― David McCullough, John Adams

“Bisogna essere duri senza mai perdere la tenerezza.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara

“Do you truly hate them? Or is it more the feeling you get when you’re around them that you hate?”
― Mark Bowden, Tame the Primitive Brain: 28 Ways in 28 Days to Manage the Most Impulsive Behaviors at Work