Angie Lisle > Angie's Quotes

“Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.”
― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

“You save yourself. That's all. You save yourself, or you're damned.”
― Glen Duncan, Hope

“When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.”
― Rupaul, Workin' It! Rupaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style

“Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a ten-dollar hooker around, if he's got any self respect, much less hurt his own woman. Much less ten times over the mother of his kids. A real man busts his ass to feed his family, fights for them if he has to, dies for them if he has to. And he treats his wife with respect every day of his life, treats her like a queen - the queen of the home she makes for their children.”
― S.M. Stirling, Dies the Fire

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .”
― Terry Pratchett, Nation

“[he]. . . hated God . . . actually, he just hated Christians . . . He never met God. Why should he care about somebody he never met?”
― Carlton Mellick III, Satan Burger

“Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was the founder of modern business. . . he picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world!”
― Paul Harding, Tinkers

“Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.”
― Chris Wooding, Poison

“God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“The world is still new . . . it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short . . . our human race has been around for such a brief amount of time that the universe hasn't had the chance to detect us yet. One blink is all it needs to miss our dance through actuality.”
― Carlton Mellick III, Satan Burger

“Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.”
― Chris Wooding, Poison

“We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.”
― Toni Morrison, A Mercy

“We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn’t as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

“Men were beasts. Everyone knew that.”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

“I'm not involved in shame. Morals are learned in childhood, and I didn't have any such holiday called childhood.”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

“We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls. . .”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

“Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing . . . I don't want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“[From Flowering Judas]

She is, her comrades tell her, full of romantic error, for what she defines as cynicism in them is merely 'a developed sense of reality'.”
― Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

“[From The Jilting of Granny Weatherall]

You waste life when you waste good food.”
― Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

“[From Old Mortality]

The woman in the picture. . . was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times.”
― Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

“[From Old Mortality]

...religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.”
― Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

“[From Pale Horse, Pale Rider]

The road to death is a long march beset with all evils. . .”
― Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

“[From The Old Order]

The Grandmother always treated her animal friends as if they were human beings temporarily metamorphosed . . .”
― Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

“God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.”
― Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

“. . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.”
― Karen Cushman, The Midwife's Apprentice

“...it's true that some if the most terrible things in the works are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff