Hugh D Ambray Quotes

What is it you want from me, Hugh?"
"Short term, I'd like you to say my name with a please attached to it. I'd like to walk into Jester Park with you on my arm."
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"Long term, I want to win. And I will win, Kate. You'll put up a good fight, but eventually you'll be sleeping in my bed and fighting with me back to back. We'll be good together. I promise you."
"What part of no don't you understand?"
"The part where I don't get what I want. ~ Ilona Andrews

Desandra shrugged her shoulders. "Hey, Kate? Have you thought of walking up to Hugh and telling him that he's got the biggest dick ever?" She spread her arms to the size of a baseball bat.
"No, you think it would work?" I asked.
"It's worth a try. May be he'll be so happy you noticed his pork sword, he'll forget all about trying to kill us."
Pork sword. Kill me now. "I'll think about it."
Ascanio began patting his clothes.
"What?" Derek growled.
"Looking for something to take notes with. ~ Ilona Andrews

You're a survivor. Voron put you on the edge of that cliff again and again until he conditioned you to claw onto life. You'll do whatever you have to do to survive, and I'm your only chance of getting out. At first you'll balk, but with every passing hour my offer will look better and better. You'll convince yourself that dying will accomplish nothing and you should at least go out with a bang. You'll tell yourself that you're accepting my offer just so you can stick that broken sword into my chest and feel it cut through my heart. Even if you die afterward, the fact that I'll stop breathing makes your death mean something. So you'll call me. And you'll try to kill me. Except you've gone three days without food, and that body . . ." He tilted his head and looked me over slowly. "That body burns through calories like fire goes through gasoline. You're running out of reserves. I can put you down with one hit."
"You're right about the sword. You broke mine. I owe you one."
He tapped his naked chest over his heart. "This is the spot. Give it a shot, Kate. Let's see what happens. ~ Ilona Andrews

What is the connection between you and our handsome host? Aunt B asked.
Blackberries taste much worse when they try to come back up your throat. "Uhhh ... "
"Uhhh is not an answer," Keira informed me.
Andre must not have told her about Hugh, and I had no desire to explain who my dad was. "We never met but we were trained by the same person. Now he works for a very powerful man who will kill me if he finds me."
"Why?" Keira asked.
"It's a family thing."
"That explains the attraction," Aunt B said.
"Attraction?"
"You're that thing he can't have. It's called forbidden fruit."
"I'm not his fruit!"
"He thinks you are. The word you're looking for is "smitten," my dear." Aunt B smiled. "I'm sure the way Megobari looked at you made Curran positively giddy. ~ Ilona Andrews

Punch any of mine, and I'll break your arm off and beat you to death with it. ~ Ilona Andrews

This was heaven. "Hey, baby," Hugh said. Heaven just got canceled. ~ Ilona Andrews

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present". ~ D. V. Ager

Donald Trump does represent a smashup of Washington D.C. He represents a total leveling of everything that people are angry about. And he has Ivanka [Trump]. And I must say, she was there last night, and she is the generational bridge that he needs, because Marco Rubio, the "children of Reagan" line is a good line. ~ Hugh Hewitt

...faced with so much mystery, most of us find it hard to settle for simple awe. ~ Hugh Mackay

I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard! ~ Hugh Jackman

He could imagine how nice it would be to not understand. To see one's microcosm as the macrocosm. To focus a meter beyond one's own nose. ~ Hugh Howey

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent. ~ Hector Hugh Munro

Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible. ~ Hugh B. Brown

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world. ~ Hector Hugh Munro

I would love to have a robot at home. ~ Hugh Jackman

Physical fitness contributes to all other aspects of personal development and makes for rich and radiant living ~ Hugh B. Brown

To fight the good fight is one of the bravest and noblest of life's experiences. Not the bloodshed and the battle of man with man, but the grappling with mental and spiritual adversaries that determines the inner caliber of the contestant. It is the quality of the struggle put forth by a man that proclaims to the world what manner of man he is far more than may be by the termination of the battle.

It matters not nearly so much to a man that he succeeds in winning some long-sought prize as it does that he has worked for it honestly and unfalteringly with all the force and energy there is in him. It is in the effort that the soul grows and asserts itself to the fullest extent of its possibilities, and he that has worked will, persevering in the face of all opposition and apparent failure, fairly and squarely endeavoring to perform his part to the utmost extent of his capabilities, may well look back upon his labor regardless of any seeming defeat in its result and say, "I have fought a good fight."

As you throw the weight of your influence on the side of the good, the true and the beautiful, your life will achieve an endless splendor. It will continue in the lives of others, higher, finer, nobler than you can even contemplate. ~ Hugh B. Brown

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me. ~ Hugh Leonard

I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them. ~ Hugh Jackman

The most fascinating person I have met so far is indeed Mr. Hugh Hefner. An incredible man! ~ Katie Price

We survive in order to struggle. Struggling means we're winning. ~ Hugh Howey

His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too. ~ Hugh Laurie

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking. ~ Charles Hugh Smith

Certainly, reading Post-Structuralist prose is a form of work, like jogging with a nail in your shoe. ~ Hugh Kenner

Bright coral and sand spread thirty-five feet below, crisp in the air-clear water. Blue clouds of Creole wrasse parted as Hugh dropped. White and yellow flashes of yellowtail snapper flitting past. How could he have questioned if coming back here was the right thing? Bubbles rose from five buddy teams. Swimming five different directions. Hugh kicked hard after the nearest pair. ~ Tim W. Jackson

Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation. ~ Hugh Herr

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross. ~ Hugh Kingsmill

Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action. ~ Hugh Elliot

When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace. ~ Hugh Prather

I'm such a chronic relativist, I can't hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough. ~ Hugh Grant

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it. ~ Hugh Jackman

If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed. ~ Hugh MacLeod

If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain. ~ Hugh MacLeod

The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating. ~ Hugh S. Johnson

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English. ~ Hector Hugh Munro

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown. ~ Hugh Prather

I was having a drink with Hugh Laurie, with whom I'd worked on his series House, and I told him I wanted to write a breakup letter from King George to the colonies. Without blinking, he improv'd at me, "Awwww, you'll be back," wagging his finger. I laughed and filed it away. Thanks, Hugh Laurie. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room. ~ Hugh Walpole

Sleep looked so much like death, he saw. Every night people perished, if but for a moment. ~ Hugh Howey

I can't help but think that if she was going to kill herself, she might as well have done it earlier. Perhaps when I was a toddler. Or better yet, an infant. It certainly would have made my life easier. I asked my uncle Hugh (who is not really my uncle, but he is married to the stepsister of my current mother's brother's wife and he lives quite closeand he's a vicar) if I would be going to hell for such a thought. He said no, that frankly, it made a lot of sense to him. I do think I prefer his parish to my own. ~ Julia Quinn

I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others. ~ Hugh Prather

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself. ~ Hugh Downs

a girl in a lemon-coloured shirt sat at a desk, with word processor, potted plant, mug of pencils, furry gonk, and wadges of orange paper. ~ Hugh Laurie

Salvatore Ferragamo have done some nice handmade suits for me. ~ Hugh Jackman

And remember, every pound you give leaves you a pound poorer. ~ Hugh Dennis

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious. ~ Hugh Prather

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble. ~ Hugh Prather