Robin > Robin's Quotes

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.”
― Charles Frazier

“That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

“She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.”
― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

“You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”
― Stephen King

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“Be like the single blade of grass. For she too, has been trampled on, mowed down, and hit with such bitterly cold stretches that she had to shut down to survive. Yet still she stands upright with dignity, knowing that she endures, and still she dances with the wind.”
― Sandra Kring

“It seems to me that after someone sweeps across your life like a red-hot flame, peeling back the shutters that sat over your heart and your mind and setting free your sweetest dreams or your worst nightmares, after things cool down you've got two choices. You can either slip back into your old self, your old life, tucking those things you were too scared to look at back into hiding, or you can keep those parts of yourself out until you get so used to them that they don't scare you anymore and they just become a part of who you are.”
― Sandra Kring, The Book of Bright Ideas