Abe Guiles > Abe's Quotes

“Excuse me, Madame, but the president runs the country, not a factory. Your time is up! So please move along so that others may greet the president.”
― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age

“Professionalism is saying no when your client tells you to do something that is not in accord with what you believe is right.”
― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life

“Your physical and emotional health are in danger.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“by”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“Far off, I heard a rumble. A land slip perhaps. Or maybe tank fire from thirty miles away. I figured the sounds of war would carry this far into the desert mountains.”
― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

“The text still made little sense to her, but as she turned the pages, she heard his voice and felt his enthusiasm, as if his breath warmed the words.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

“But I can tell you this. You won’t be alone. I will be with you. I promise.”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“No human figures were in the painting; had there been, and she would have removed them by repositioning the painting.”
― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison

“The people have a right to know. And a right to protect themselves. I’m only doing my job.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Me, a nothingness zombie in a nothingness box in a nothingness hell.”
― Daniel Keyes, The Minds of Billy Milligan

“Habían llegado a un arroyo que serpenteaba y saltaba entre rocas. Christopher Robin comprendió inmediatamente lo peligroso que era.
- Es el mejor sitio para una Emboscada -explicó.
- ¿Es algo de comer? -preguntó Puh a Porquete en un susurro.
- Mi querido Puh -dijo Búho con tono de superioridad-. ¿No sabes lo que es una Emboscada?
- Búho -dijo Porquete mirándole con gran severidad-, el susurro de Puh era absolutamente privado y no tienes por qué...
- Una Emboscada -dijo Búho-, es una especie de Sorpresa.
- Hay cosas de comer que también lo son -dijo Puh.
- Una Emboscada, tal y como yo estaba explicándole a Puh -dijo Porquete-, es una especie de Sorpresa.
- Cuando alguien se te echa encima de repente, eso es una Emboscada -dijo Búho.
- Una Emboscada es cuando alguien se te cae encima de repente, Puh - explicó Porquete.
Puh, que ahora ya sabía lo que era una Emboscada, les contó cómo un tarro entero de miel se le había caído encima una mañana y cómo había necesitado seis días para chuparse toda la miel de encima y lo que le fastidió tener que desperdiciar la que le cayó en los sitios donde no llegaba para chupar.
- No estaba hablando de comida -dijo Búho un poco molesto.
- Yo sí -dijo Puh.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: with original color illustrations by Arthur Rackham

“نحن لا نستطيع تقديم البرهان على ما يقوله ضميرنا ، لكننا رغم ذلك نعرفه جيدا”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“You can crab over the morning paper and kick the shins of the guy in the next seat at the movies and feel mean and discouraged and sneer at the politicians but there are a lot of nice people in the world just the same.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely