Pam > Pam's Quotes

“You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”
― Georgette Heyer, Powder and Patch

“Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.”
― Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, The Palace

“Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?”
― Connie Willis, Bellwether

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
― Edgar Degas

“Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”
― Christine Feehan, Night Game

“Don't cater to stupidity.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Possession

“Over. Done. Gone.”
― Wen Spencer, A Brother's Price

“O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most.”
― Christina Dodd, A Well Pleasured Lady

“In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Babe Ruth signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees; Eugene O'Neill was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Frederick Douglass's home was dedicated as a national shrine; former heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson invented the wrench...”
― Bernice L. McFadden, Glorious

“My color is my joy and not my burden...”
― Bebe Moore Campbell, Brothers and Sisters

“the important thing is not to point a finger at flaws but to attempt to correct them!”
― Bebe Moore Campbell, Brothers and Sisters

“the shame is in not improving when you have the opportunity!”
― Bebe Moore Campbell, Brothers and Sisters

“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

“I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that, my mother said. Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them grow. Growing and living are hard enough already; children do not need things to be harder. I think this is true even for normal children. I have watched little children learning to walk; they all struggle and fall down many times. Their faces show that it is not easy. It would be stupid to tie bricks on them to make it harder. If that is true for learning to walk, then I think it is true for other growing and learning as well.
God is suppose to be the good parent, the Father. So I think God would not make things harder than they are. I do not think I am autistic because God thought my parents needed a challenge or I needed a challenge. I think it is like if I were a baby and a rock fell on me and broke my leg. Whatever caused it was an accident. God did not prevent the accident, but He did not cause it, either.... I think my autism is an accident, but what I do with it is me.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

“I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.”
― Mary Balogh

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
― Edith Sitwell

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts.”
― Kay Hooper, If There Be Dragons

“Saying that you love is easy, but living up to those simple words is the most difficult thing you'll ever do.”
― Kay Hooper, What Dreams May Come

“Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.”
― Kay Hooper

“I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.”
― Lynn Kurland, Princess of the Sword

“He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.”
― Lynn Kurland, Star of the Morning

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart