Max Hale Quotes

Don't you get it?' said Max. 'You're not praying, you're just ... wishing. And wishes don't come true. ~ Peter Clines

Guy between boyfriends #6 and #7
Paul Diaz, Twenty-Something
He was in her watercolor class, so cute and the sweet kind of shy. They obviously clicked, the attraction thrilling between them, inspiring her to relish the infatuation freshman-style and write his name in her notebook in curvy, flowery script. She gave him openings but guessed he was too timid to ask her out. The day after finals, she ran into him at the deli on campus and thought she had nothing to lose.
"My work is having this fancy dinner party next weekend, the food's supposed to be great. Would you like to go with me?"
"Oh, uh, maybe, I'll have to check," he said. Then, "What was your name again?"
There's always something to lose. ~ Shannon Hale

Giving works best when the Lord's portion is removed first and believers learn to live within the remainder. ~ Max Anders

Hale looked at the dead man. His baseball cap had fallen from what remained of his head. A head that was once bald beneath that baseball cap. That didn't matter now. All that remained was meat. Hale guessed that's all they ever were. Meat. Selfish and stupid animals. The trick was to be the one standing. Hale stepped over the dead man. Walked through the beaded curtain. Through the restaurant out the door and into the China Town circus. ~ James A. Newman

I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is a bit self-obsessed. I don't know if I really have a persona, in that respect. I want to just make the music and hide away. ~ Max Tundra

Fear may fill our world, but it doesn't have to fill our hearts. ~ Max Lucado

Some ancients speculated that the stars were small holes in a black sphere through which distant light shone through. The Italian astronomer Giordano Bruno suggested that they were instead objects like our Sun, just much farther away, perhaps with their own planets and civilizations - this didn't go down too well with the Catholic Church, which had him burned at the stake in 1600. ~ Max Tegmark

My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres. ~ Max Miller

I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them. ~ Tucker Max

In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic brotherliness, unless it is among strata who are economically carefree. Under the technical and social conditions of rational culture, an imitation of the life of Buddha, Jesus, or Francis seems condemned to failure for purely external reasons. ~ Max Weber

Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work. ~ Max De Pree

What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige. ~ Max Cannon

Two or three girls go to a club and they've worked out that one player is worth 50,000 (128,000), another's worth 30,000 (77,000). That's the reality. ~ Max Clifford

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift
a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods. ~ Max Ehrmann

Don't overlook the most important thing you can do to grow your business and that is marketing.

Not focusing on marketing your business is like having a Ferrrari in the driveway, but refusing to put gas in it. What good is that doing? ~ Max Fortune

Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naive and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles. ~ Max Brooks

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about. ~ Tucker Max

What a noise we'll make among the drab and dull, how we'll ... wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, hour can you dismiss purple? Call [him] back and tell him off my need of purple! ~ Shannon Hale

Don't you think God can work however he chooses?" "I believe God worked, and the rest is up to us. ~ Max Lucado

Not everything needed to be processed. Some things needed to be ignored and slept on. ~ Max Wirestone

Me: This feels like sexual harassment.

Wes: I'm pretty sure you started this conversation.

Me: Only because I caught you memorizing the curves of my ass like there was going to be a pop quiz on it later.

Wes: And your legs.

Me: That is so inappropriate.

Wes: Those sexy fucking heels and skirts you prance around in are the only things that are inappropriate. ~ Max Monroe

That's really one of the things I love about video games. It's a whole new world every time you start. ~ Jennifer Hale

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people. ~ Max Cannon

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't. ~ Tucker Max

It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans. ~ Max Frisch

God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer. ~ Max Lucado

Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE. ~ Mandy Hale

Kat," Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows.
"Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell."
"I let myself in; hope that's okay."
Hale smiled. "Or the alarm."
She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed.
"You're due for an upgrade."
Hale propped himself against the antique headboard and squinted up at her.
"She returns." He crossed his arms across his bare chest. "You know, I could be naked in here. ~ Ally Carter

For all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time. ~ Max Born

I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max, and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq knowing what I know today. ~ George W. Bush

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well. ~ Sarah Josepha Hale

The self, entirely encompassed by civilization, is dissolved in an element composed of the very inhumanity which civilization has sought from the first to escape. ~ Max Horkheimer

Max never intended to be messy with his writing, which he could read just fine, years later if necessary, even if his teachers couldn't. He merely found that his active mind tended to move too fast for his hand to keep up with. ~ Sol Luckman

I also know that one must do what one can do. No matter how little it is, it is nonetheless a human testimony and human testimonies, as long as they are not based on greed or personal ambition for power, can have unexpected positive effects.
...I believe in local action and in small dimensions. It is only in such environments that human creativity and meaningful identities can truly surface and flourish. ~ Manfred Max-Neef