Laura Isles Quotes

Ignorance of the outcome doesn't exempt you from the consequences. ~ Laura Wiess

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them. ~ Laura Marling

Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds ... But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values. ~ Laura Riding

But with her eyes closed, she began to whisper. "If you have someone to love, then love. If you have someone to forgive, then forgive. You think, when you're seventeen, there's time enough for that, but there's not. There's no time at all."
I squeezed her hand, trying to think of how to respond. But she took the burden from me and kept whispering. "You want to know why God gave us people to love? Because that's the only way we can understand how he feels about us. Desperate and jealous. ~ Laura Anderson Kurk

A grim smile stretches across my face.
He's coming.
The devil is coming for me. ~ Laura Thalassa

Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning. ~ Laura Mulvey

If you're not careful, you run out of time. ~ Laura Dave

Well, I'm a Harley Babe. ~ Laura Schlessinger

I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view. ~ Laura Bush

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. ~ Laura Riding

She knew those horrid words were addressed to her. They felt like the icy tip of an arrow meant to conjure up destruction, coming from the most venomous abyss imaginable, rammed right into her chest with the utmost authority, entitlement, and pleasure. ~ Laura Gentile

We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease. ~ Laura Bush

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly. ~ Laura Dern

If your unconscious mind wishes you to be well, you are well. If it wishes you to be sick, you become sick. If it wishes you to die, you die. ~ Laura Van Den Berg

Below are some quotations along these lines. Select a quote for your Gothic Myspace layout or contribute one of your own. ~ Laura Ramirez

Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings. ~ Laura Busche

I hope," she said, "that you didn't stay out of some foolish romantical notion."
He looked down, staring at the tumbled bedclothes. "Such as?"
"Saving my life."
He looked up again with a grimace. "Naturally not. I usually throw my houseguests off the cliff. ~ Laura Kinsale

If money management isn't something you enjoy, consider my perspective. I look at managing my money as if it were a part-time job. The time you spend monitoring your finances will pay off. You can make real money by cutting expenses and earning more interest on savings and investments. I'd challenge you to find a part-time job where you could potentially earn as much money for just an hour or two of your time. ~ Laura D. Adams

Watanabe would later admit that in the beginning of his life in exile, he had pondered the question of whether or not he had committed any crime. In the end, he laid the blame not on himself but on "sinful, absurd, insane war." He saw himself as a victim. ~ Laura Hillenbrand

I am eager for the pleasures of the flesh
More than for salvation,
My soul is dead,
So I shall look after the flesh. ~ Laura Brodie

There's no point dating a guy who can't support a family. ~ Laura Schlessinger

I cannot imagine not wanting to live. I cannot imagine not believing that it will be better someday. I cannot imagine that there is nothing left to see, that there is nothing to tie me to Earth. As long as I want to live, then I must be fine. ~ Laura Nowlin

Give that woman an inch and she takes the entire British Isles. ~ Sarah Jane Stratford

I fear...someone knowing all my secrets." --Jess Parkin, page 62, ~ Laura Burks

Loneliness was tricky: a cup filled at one moment with freedom, and the next, with emptiness. ~ Laura Resau

I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot. ~ Laura Wilkinson

The Ferryman will transport us across the moat," Chris informed.
"Yeah. This seems legit," Gabriella quipped as Chris helped her onto the boat. Andrew followed behind.
"Are you sure this isn't a trick?" Egnatious asked.
Again, uncertainty filtered into Chris's blue eyes, but he nodded anyway. "This is the only way. ~ Laura Kreitzer

Fact: If you want to get ahead as a Canadian, you're going to have to leave the country. Especially if you have the gall to live in Montreal. ~ Laura Roberts

The turret was shot with holes, and the floor was jingling with flakes of metal and turret motor. ~ Laura Hillenbrand

between the word and the world lie
fading eternities of soon ~ Laura Riding

From flame to ashes, dawn to dusk, for the rest of our lives, be mine always...
And the mountains may rise and fall, and the sun might wither away, and the sea may claim the land and swallow the sky. But you will always be mine. And the stars might fall from the heavens, and night might cloak the earth, but until darkness dies, I will always be yours. - Callie and Desmond ~ Laura Thalassa

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages
and sages
and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. ~ Laura Bush

I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one big passion. 'Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win' - that will be my next passion book. I am angry. ~ Laura Schlessinger

The Marie bit is easy enough to understand, then. The Laura thing takes a bit more explaining, but what it is, I think, is this: sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostalgic and hopeful all at the same time. Marie's the hopeful, forward part of it – maybe not her, necessarily, but somebody like her, somebody who can turn things around for me. (Exactly that: I always think that women are going to save me, lead me through to a better life, that they can change and redeem me.) And Laura's the backward part, the last person I loved, and when I hear those sweet, sticky acoustic guitar chords I reinvent our time together, and, before I know it, we're in the car trying to sing the harmonies on "Sloop John B" and getting it wrong and laughing. We never did that in real life. We never sang in the car, and we certainly never laughed when we got something wrong. This is why I shouldn't be listening to pop music at the moment. ~ Nick Hornby

Satisfactory husband that he was, he was a man and not one inclined to wax poetic about a day of cupcakes and movies. ~ Laura Lippman

You've got to get out from under that burden of believing a lie. Folks you care about get cut down, so you stop caring, stop letting folks in. ~ Laura Frantz

Thanks for bearing the crap out of that creep," I said. Andre gave me a shadow of a smile, his way of acknowledging my decision to stay with him rather than running away again. "But," I said, "just so we're clear: no more mass killings. If that happens again , I'm so out of here." I couldn't believe I'd ever have to say those particular words to someone. ~ Laura Thalassa

I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody's face while we're having sex; because, number one, what if I know the guy? ~ Laura Kightlinger