A. E. Coppard Quotes
“The poor wretch, she had given up so much and could yet smile at her trouble. He himself had never surrendered to anything in life – that was what life demanded of you – surrender. For reward it gave you love, this swarthy, skin – deep love that exacted remorseless penalties.”
Quotes to Explore
-
I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
-
I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
-
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
-
You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
-
People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
-
One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
-
If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
-
I write romance because I love to read romance.
-
I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
-
I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.
-
I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
-
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
-
Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
-
I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
-
I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.'
-
'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
-
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
-
My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.
-
Now the origin of the universe that you know, as I have described it, was of course a master event. The initial action did not occur in space or time, but formed space and time.
-
I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
-
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
-
We all like going to the dark side of things; we all like dipping into worlds that we don't know anything about, or hopefully don't know anything about. I think 'Banshee' gives people a chance to do that pretty safely because we all know there's a solid buffer between the show and reality.
-
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
-
“The poor wretch, she had given up so much and could yet smile at her trouble. He himself had never surrendered to anything in life – that was what life demanded of you – surrender. For reward it gave you love, this swarthy, skin – deep love that exacted remorseless penalties.”
