Caleb Marano Quotes

In the space of a breath he had crossed the distance separating them and spun her around into a vise grip from behind. Somehow, the gun was out of her hand and in his. He locked her arms between them and raised the gun to her temple. His voice resonated low and dangerous at her ear. "Just so we're very clear. If I want to kill you, I can kill you. ~ G.S. Jennsen

Her pulse raced, pounding in her ears above the howling wind. A wave of dizziness crashed over her with the rapid flood of adrenaline. She gasped in a breath. "Don't let go. ~ G.S. Jennsen

In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing…okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous. ~ G.S. Jennsen

Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend. ~ Caleb Crain

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

That's what you get when you're stupid. ~ Caleb Eversole

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Some Things Never Change. They just Become Different. ~ Joshua Caleb

From "Caleb's Crossing"
This is an excellent thought about family though it doesn't apply to me. I am lucky in my brothers.
"Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul to whom fate had shackled me. ~ Geraldine Brooks

It seemed to Caleb, the nature of human being revolved around one empirical truth: we want what we cannot have. For Eve, it was the fruit of the forbidden tree. For Caleb, it was Livvie. ~ C.J. Roberts

As luck would have it, Caleb appeared at supper that night. His uniform had been shaken out and pressed, and his butterscotch hair gleamed with cleanliness. He brought Cuban cigars for Rupert and a delicate china figurine for Lily. She looked at him in bewilderment, and he smiled at her as though there had been no disagreement at the front gate only a few hours earlier. ~ Linda Lael Miller

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

She could refuse to have sex with me every day for the rest of our lives and I still would choose her. That's how deep I was in this. - Caleb Drake ~ Tarryn Fisher

A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Where is all your bravery now, Pet? No clawing, no hissing? Where's my though girl? - Caleb ~ C.J. Roberts

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

You're a cold bastard, Caleb.' She turned on her heels, fighting back the tears as she took the first two steps back down.
'A cold bastard who feels a hell of a lot more than he should,' he declared. 'Who, despite what you have done to me here, still cannot see you walk away. Who cannot bear the thought of anyone else laying their hands on you. Who I would kill if they ever hurt you the way I have. I don't want you to be a serryn, Leila. It's the last thing I want. And you being the one I need to kill tears me apart more than you'll ever know. ~ Lindsay J. Pryor

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say. ~ Caleb Deschanel

I want him more than I need him. ~ Shelly Crane

I wish I could trust you, Reed, but I know I can't."
His brow furrows in confusion, but there is a wry tilt to his lips, "Why?"
I give him a small smile of my own, "You think you're different from men like Caleb. You see everything in black and white, you don't care about the whole story; you don't care about the gray. Some stories aren't black and white, Agent Reed. ~ C.J. Roberts

I need to make myself strong on the inside instead of what is on the outside. I know all of this, but why can't I put any of it into action? I guess that's why I am in this place. ~ Piper Caleb

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't. ~ Caleb Carr

I should start trying to find comfort in loneliness. ~ Caleb Reese

Caleb could be so testy for no known reason. At times, it was like dating a woman with irritable bowel syndrome. Or rabies. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish and abound. For the good opinion of our fellow-men is the strongest though not the purest motive to virtue. The privations of poverty render us too cold and callous, and the privileges of property too arrogant and confidential, to feel; the first places us beneath the influence of opinion
the second, above it. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

You're the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb ~ L. Duarte

I sense in you a true heart. A faithful heart. And by your wounds and scars, I can tell that you are fearless. So I shall call you Caleb, the faithful, fearless warrior who defends what he believes with everything he has. That is what I see when I look upon you. Not a demon. An ever-courageous, noble warrior. One day, I suspect, you shall look into a mirror and see the same noble man I do. Lilliana ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale. ~ Caleb Deschanel

Life isn't supposed to be easy. Ever. But with the hardest challenges go the greatest rewards. And every incredible moment of my life came only after I did something that made my gut clench with fear. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

death could stop a lot of things, but it could never cut the bond of friendship. Caleb ~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

I' m going to bed. If anyone else attacks tonight, feed them Nick and tell them to go away.
-Caleb ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Breathing her calms Caleb; she is is own oxygen. ~ Jodi Picoult