Manda Rollheiser > Manda's Quotes

“Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending – no, giving –thirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Love is the Answer, God is the Cure!”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

“Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.”
― Tom Clancy

“Colonel Cathcart is our commanding officer and we must obey him. Why don't you fly four more missions and see what happens?"

"I don't want to."

"Suppose we let you pick your missions and fly milk runs?" Major Major said. "That way you can fly the four missions and not run any risks."

"I don't want to fly milk runs. I don't want to be in the war anymore."

"Would you like to see our country lose?" Major Major asked.

"We won't lose. We've got more men, more money, and more material. There are ten million men in uniform who could replace me. Some people are getting killed and a lot more are making money and having fun. Let somebody else get killed."

"But suppose everybody on our side felt that way?"

"Then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way. Wouldn't I?”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“إدراك المرء لكونه في حالة حرب ومن ثم تتهدده الأخطار يجعل من تسليم كل السلطات لحفنة صغيرة من الناس أمراً طبيعياً وشرطاً محتوماً للبقاء على قيد الحياة.”
― جورج أورويل, 1984

“I have seldom met an individual of literary tastes or propensities in whom the writing of love was not directly attributable to the love of writing.

A person of this sort falls terribly in love, but in the end it turns out that he is more bemused by a sheet of white paper than a sheet of white bed linen. He would rather leap into print with his lady than leap into bed with her. (This first pleases the lady and then annoys her. She wants him to do both, and with virtually the same impulse.)”
― E.B. White, Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do

“Enough is the same as a feast.”
― Thomas Malory, Le Mort d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table - Volume I, Large Print

“He glared at her. "Aye, and you shall be the best cabin boy I have ever had or I will feed you to the sharks. Savvy?" He turned and stomped back to the
ship”
― Bev Stout, Secrets of the Realm

“People believe what they want to believe.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days