Richard Ward Quotes

Jade blinked. It was only for a fraction of a second but she could have sworn the the house had changed shape. ~ Richard J. Ward

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends. ~ Richard K. Morgan

I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens. ~ Jesmyn Ward

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. ~ James Welch

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. ~ Julia Ward Howe

What the masses don't realize is that they're looking for a shepherd. Those who don't think they can be influenced or call themselves 'independent thinkers' are usually the biggest conformists of all - and the easiest to turn. Why do you think cults prey on college students? Easy picking. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Rose and Carlos twisted together like chicken fight partners in knee-deep guacamole, ~ Richard Long

we're apt to forget that symmetry is not an obvious quality that every creature must have. ~ Richard Dawkins

...it was Buddhism that inspired the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, and, through him, attracted Richard Wagner. This Orientalism reflected the struggle of the German Romantics, in the words of Léon Poliakov, to free themselves from Judeo-Christian fetters. ~ Joscelyn Godwin

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's. ~ Richard D. James

You kind of have to have a cynical thing sometimes. ~ Richard Patrick

We've been very clear all along on where we draw the line," Jim Ward, Lucasfilm's vice president of marketing, told The New York Times. "We love our fans. We want them to have fun. But if in fact somebody is using our characters to create a story unto itself, that's not in the spirit of what we think fandom is about. Fandom is about celebrating the story the way it is. ~ Anne Elizabeth Moore

I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly. ~ Richard Siken

How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die. ~ Rachel Ward

In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding. ~ Richard Jeni

You should have heard the boatman who brought me up here from the Glades. Fire in the northern sky, lights in the marshes, a black dog heard barking through the night. Doesn't occur to anyone to wonder how exactly you can tell it's a black dog just from the fucking bark it makes. ~ Richard K. Morgan

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something ~ Richard Saul Wurman

Sitting under the candlenut tree in the courtyard is pleasant in the afternoon. Laced in shadows, frangipani & coral hibiscus ward away the memory of recent evil. The sisters go about their duties, Sister Martinique tends her vegetables, the cats enact their feline comedies & tragedies. ~ David Mitchell

Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance. ~ Richard J. Foster

Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A universe with a creative superintendent would be a very different kind of universe from one without. Why is that not a scientific matter? ~ Richard Dawkins

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something. ~ Richard P. Feynman

They're doing a rain dance? A rain dance? In my hotel? On Waikiki Beach? A rain dance? ~ Richard Tillotson

The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity. ~ Richard A. Proctor

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky. ~ Anthony Hopkins

I understand how people come to such conclusions. They see the church painting ugliness, arrogance, and lust on the canvas of this world, and so they walk or run away. There's only one way to address this: We need to be painting different pictures - of justice, mercy, love, hospitality, celebration, and hope. ~ Richard Dahlstrom

Many people have noted the contrast between the hysterical 'hurt' professed by Muslims and the readiness with which Arab media publish stereotypical anti-Jewish cartoons. At a demonstration in Pakistan against the Danish cartoons, a woman in a black burka was photographed carrying a banner reading 'God Bless Hitler'. In ~ Richard Dawkins

Your storm, Thlayli-rah. Use it. ~ Richard Adams

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The often dramatic differences among the personalities are more an arresting epiphenomenon than the core of the condition. Characterological factors, cultural influences, imagination, intelligence, and creativity make powerful contributions to the form taken by the personalities. Most DID patients are rather muted compared to those cases incorrectly assumed to epitomize the condition (Kluft, 1985b). The personalities enact adaptational patterns and strategies that developed in the service of defense and survival. Once this pattern, which disposes of upsetting material and pressures rapidly and efficiently, is established, it may be repeated again and again to cope with both further overwhelming experiences and more mundane developmental and adaptational issues. ~ Richard P. Kluft

My ward had arisen. She had slept so hard her eyes looked puffy, but she had acquainted herself with the equipment in my stainless steel galley, and she wore a pretty cotton dress, which hung just a little loosely on her, and she had taken two generous steaks out of the locker and set them out to thaw. She seemed a little more aware of the situation, shyly aware that she might be a nuisance. ~ John D. MacDonald

People, of course, like to think that they are special -- that's exciting. It's disappointing to discover otherwise. ~ J. Richard Gott III

I am old. I should have left before. Any fool can ride the chariots of victory. It takes judgement to get off at the right time. ~ Richard Sapir

Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business. ~ Richard Branson

Wickedness is not as interesting as you might hope. ~ Richard House

Taking bold climate action now has the potential to unleash the full power of business and at the same time lift millions of people out of poverty. We're the first generation to recognize this and the last generation that will have this opportunity. ~ Richard Branson

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We can support Barack Obama because he's committed to putting America back to work with good jobs - and he proved it by saving the auto industry. ~ Richard Trumka

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful. ~ J.R. Ward