Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.
Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.
A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose.
He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.
You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.
I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.
It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.
You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes and you're hearing him call himself out on his bad behavior. You don't have the benefit of that narrator in a movie. What you see a character do, very often, becomes that much more important because you don't have him editorializing it for you.
Self-respect leads to self-discipline.
Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.
There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.