Lee Child Quotes

'Best we can do. And we have to do something.'

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• If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Love
  • Sun
  • Find

• I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Hope
  • Wish
  • Sex

• You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Style
  • Wedding
  • Pictures

• I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
  • University
  • Badly

• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Me
  • Economic
  • Program

• I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Business
  • Age
  • Success

• There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• The more far-out artists, the better.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Better
  • More
  • Artists

• I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Middle East

• I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Know
  • Me
  • Myself

• I always want to improve.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
  • Always
  • Improve

• I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Bad
  • Single
  • Try

• This struggle to preserve the old creeds, cultures, and countries of the West is the new divide between Left and Right; this struggle will define what it means to be a conservative. This is the cause of the twenty-first century and the agenda of conservatism for the remainder of our lives.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Struggle

• Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Music

• Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

  

  Connie Willis
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Chocolate

• When I painted Christ's parents I was thinking of my own parents. The bearded man is the Child's father. He is my father. Chagall stated this in 1950

  

  Marc Chagall
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Parents

• For us, forgetting was never an option. Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Good
  • Remember
  • History

• I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart

• It's a very selfish time. When I'm here at home, my responsibilities are far greater. I'm forced to be way more selfless. My priorities are so far down the list that it's hard to see them. And yet, when I'm on tour, I basically have to get the show right, every night, but the days are really constructed around selfish activities for self-improvement, or not. That's where I feel guilty because I know that life is going on full-speed when I'm not around.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Home
  • Night
  • Responsibility

• The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

  

  Catherine Hicks
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Muscle

• Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.

  

  Ellen Gilchrist

• We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • Choices
  • Kindness
  • Be kind

• When Society allows a dyslexic to sink, through ignorance or prejudice, it is not only the dyslexic who loses.

  

  Susan Hampshire
  • Society
  • Ignorance
  • Dyslexic

• 'Best we can do. And we have to do something.'

  

  Lee Child