Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?

Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!

Are We Normal? Funny True Stories from an Everyday Family

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.

Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of Our Most Admired President

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.

In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.

The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun

A sense of peace came over me and I must have been smiling as I fell asleep.

The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers

You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.

I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory

Tell this guy to eat a hundred-calorie pack of dicks.

I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

I refuse to use the computers if Google is on them.' Librarian: 'Okay.' '--' Librarian: '--' '--' Librarian: 'Enjoy your day!

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.

King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus

You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at.

The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched

This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

Room

Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps out reflects an issue in our psyche that requires our attention.

Running Into Myself

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.

Standing Tall: The Stories of Ten Hispanic Americans

Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another

Selected Stories Of Robert Barr