Quotes of: His Keyword

he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.

War and Peace

Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it?

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

The surge of his ardour swept through him in climatic release, filling her womb with his final, mortal sowing.

The Woman of the Well

Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

He lay on the bed, freshly shaven and washed, legs crossed at the ankles and arms propped behind his head. His posture said,

A Week to Be Wicked

He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance.

Your Scandalous Ways

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Jackson Browne

President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes.

Charlie Crist

I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas' shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion.

Daniel Boulud

Tony La Russa is considered among the best in his business. Yet nearly half the time he led his organizations into competition, they were defeated - 2,728 wins, 2,365 losses.

Don Yaeger

His mama beat him with an ugly stick so hard, it gone straight on till his soul.

The Freedom Maze

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

The Art of War

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

I stepped out of the circle of his arms with reluctance and patted him on his butt. “That’ll do, donkey,” I said, in my best Scottish accent.

Redemption

No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the debt.

Romancing the Duke

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

Jack London

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

Henry Miller

Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close to his heart He does bind.

Henrietta Newton Martin

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Joseph Conrad

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

Oscar Wilde