Quotes of: His-way Keyword

Shergahn and friend lay like poleaxed steers, and the Daranfelian's greasy hair was thick with potatoes, carrots, gravy, and chunks of beef. His companion had less stew in his hair, but an equally large lump was rising fast, and Brandark flipped his ...

Oath of Swords

... He didn't know how to say good-bye. His throat ached from the strain of holding back his emotions. “I don't want to leave you,” he said humbly, reaching for her cold, stiff hands. Emma lowered her head, her tears falling freely. “I'll never...

Prince of Dreams

He had never before thought of himself as gullible. He wondered where he had gone wrong. It occurred to him that he had let himself be overawed—by bishop Henry and his silk robes, by the magnificence of Winchester and its cathedral, by the piles of...

The Pillars of the Earth

Aaron reached into his jacket pocket and took out his Bible, a gift from his father, Captain Benjamin K. Matthews, on the the day he had ridden off to war. Aaron opened to the Psalms, intending to read, but his eyes were heavy and closed against his ...

Until Shiloh Comes: A Civil War Novel

At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of him on the Drop, riding Rusher flat out with his bla...

Wizard and Glass

He stopped. She heard the intake of his breath. “You are my country, Desdemona.” Yearning, harsh and poignant and she felt herself swaying toward him. “My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathom...

As You Desire

What scared Stanley the most about dying wasn't his actual death. He figured he could handle the pain. It wouldn't be much worse than what he felt now. In fact, maybe at the moment of his death he would be too weak to feel pain. Death would be a reli...

Holes

I will admit that I wanted to shout for standing on the top of a scaffold in front of a good new wall always goes to my head. It is a sensation something between that of an angel let out of his cage into a new sky and a drunkard turned loose in a roy...

The Horse's Mouth

What I admire about the modern atheist is not at all his logic, but rather his gift of imagination. There will always be the cartoon versions of Christianity further perpetuated by the extremist atheists who do not possess the humility to ask real sc...

Criss Jami

O cousin Kate, my love was true, Your love was writ in sand: If he had fooled not me but you, If you had stood where i stand, He'd not have won me with his love, Nor bought me with his land; I would have spit into his face And not have taken his hand...

Christina Rossetti

Ja sam kraj ili početak.

Letter to His Father

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

Thomas Dewar

I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.

Tamer Hassan

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

Kenneth Tynan

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

Rand Paul

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

Stephen Ambrose

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

Maurice Chevalier

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Benjamin Franklin

The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.

Nick Mancuso

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Thomas Fuller