Ruth Downie Quotes

One of the many difficult things about women was that they tended to pick the most unsuitable times to tell you something they considered to be important, and then became irrationally upset when you failed to remember it. ~ Ruth Downie

But she's only a woman!" The watch captain shook his head again. "So was Helen of Troy, sir. Look what she started. ~ Ruth Downie

There were many things a man might think he should be told when a woman agreed to marry him. She had choose not to mention several of them ~ Ruth Downie

You can't do anything with a man whose mind is gone. ~ Ruth Downie

There's no good in moping girl, there's work to be done... Have you forgotten, nobody likes a person who feels sorry for herself. ~ Ruth Downie

Wriggled to avoid the lump that always seemed directly under ~ Ruth Downie

Back from where? you're not going out again and leaving me here are you?? Holy Hercules I sound like somebody's wife ~ Ruth Downie

Such was the cost of dealing with the Romans: even when one fought against them, the stain of their violence licked and crackled at the soul like a fire about to engulf an entire forest. ~ Ruth Downie

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen. ~ Ruth Downie

What color is time? Where do the thoughts of the dead go? How is it diseases spread but miracles don't? Have you ever thought of that? ~ Ruth Downie

Three years with Claudia had taught Ruso that when a woman said something did not matter and refused to tell you what it was, it usually mattered a great deal - to her, if not to you. Frequently her way of punishing you for not knowing what it was in the first place was to refuse to tell you until you gave up asking. This was her cue to accuse you of not caring about her, otherwise you would have known what she wanted you to know without having to be told. Finally, if you were lucky, she would explain the latest way in which you had failed her expectations. If you were not lucky, she would explain ... ~ Ruth Downie

Socrates was a wise man. Surveying the goods on a market stall, the great one was said to have remarked, What a lot of things a man doesn't need! ~ Ruth Downie

Blood for honor. That was the price then, as it was the price now. It was always the price of honor. Always blood. Always pain. And as the queen was scourged, he wondered if such a thing as honor really existed at all. For what was honor if it could not strip the pride from a barbarian woman even as she was beaten before her people? What was honor if he could only defend his own by doing this to her? Honor, Decianus thought, was just an excuse for war and mayhem. An excuse for taking. Whether the taking of a woman or the taking of one tribe against another, one empire over another, one emperor over the world. An emperor like the one he served . . . If this was honor, he wanted no part in it. ~ Ruth Downie

[regarding the sacrifice] It was all very professionally done, even to a man whose religion consisted mostly of half formed and unanswered questions, it was strangely reassuring. ~ Ruth Downie

I seem to remember sitting on a golden bench, and she started chattering about the sunset, or something. She seemed quite happy so I let her get on with it. Then she got hold of my hand and asked me what I was thinking about. So I said, "The treatment of anal fistulae". ~ Ruth Downie

Britannia's big enough to count, but remote enough not to matter. ~ Ruth Downie

But how can an ordinary girl not know this? Had Varana's mother not bothered to teach her anything at all or just shouted complaints from a distance while her children fought and argued amongst themselves like wolf cubs? ~ Ruth Downie

Sparrows and pigeons and a blackbird were celebrating the morning in the courtyard. ~ Ruth Downie

It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip. ~ Ruth Downie

A little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance. ~ Ruth Downie

That was one of the bad things about being able to read: people could nag you from a great distance. ~ Ruth Downie

But, when she was alone, someone rapped on the door and she found herself on her feet, knife in hand, before she had time to reason with her fear. ~ Ruth Downie

And leave me alone when I tell ya to. I will have things to do that are private. I cannot always have you trailing around with me like a strand of goose grass. ~ Ruth Downie

Even now he could not say in his heart of hearts for which side he would draw his blade when he was finally called upon. What was a child of two worlds to do? ~ Ruth Downie

British rain was rarely that simple. For days on end, instead of falling, it simply hung around in the air like a wife waiting for you to notice she was sulking. ~ Ruth Downie

The Empress Sabina had long ago formed her own theory about the nonsense in travel books. No traveler, having gone to the expense and trouble of venturing where most civilized people were too sensible to go, was going to come home and admit that it had been a waste of time. Instead, he had to pronounce his destination to be full of strange wonders, like the elk with no knees that could be caught by sabotaging the tree against which it leaned when it slept (Julius Caesar) or the men from India who could wrap themselves in their own ears (reported by the elder Pliny, who seemed to have written down everything he was ever told), or the blue-skinned Britons (Julius Caesar again).
Strangely, no traveler had ever brought one of these creatures home for inspection. Doubtless they were impossible to capture, or died on the journey, or the blue came off in the wash. ~ Ruth Downie

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued. ~ Babe Ruth

Could Pesto be his own observer? Interesting question. He used to like to raise his leg and study his asshole. It didn't seem like this observation caused him to split into multiple cats with multiple assholes. ~ Ruth Ozeki

I felt for the first time that the library belonged here. The house was reclaiming its spirit, and the library, which had stood aloof and apart for so many years, was turning back into what it was always meant to be: the heart of this home. ~ Ruth Reichl

How are we ever going to understand what happens when a civilization comes apart at the seams, as it did in Germany, if we fail to see the most glaring distinctions, such as the gender gap? ~ Ruth Kluger

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular? ~ Ruth Gordon

I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer. ~ Ruth Rendell

No writer, even the most proficient, could re-enact in words the flow of a life lived. ~ Ruth Ozeki

There are some things you shouldn't have to remember. ~ Ruth Ware

Shortly before the monsoon, the heat becomes very intense. It is said that the more intense it becomes the more abundantly it will draw down the rains, so one wants it to be as hot as can be. And by that time one has accepted it -- not got used to but accepted; and moreover, too worn-out to fight against it, one submits to it and endures. ~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden. ~ Gunter Blobel

How difficult it is to see
The things we love
With all this shadow round us,
This brief time we're here. ~ Ruth Padel

But if you are going to say you are unnerved by how Turk Bauer is filled with hate, you must admit that Ruth, too, is filled with hate. You heard it, ~ Jodi Picoult

Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley. ~ Ruth Rendell

Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been. ~ Ruth Ann Minner

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything. ~ Ruth Bernhard

Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition ... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know. ~ Ruth Bernhard

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. ~ Donna Leon

below and select the title. http://cma.wiley.com/WileyCMA/Section... In this part . . . Classic - a word that can be used to describe not only the books represented in this chapter, but the For Dummies series as a whole. When the For Dummies series began, personal computers were becoming widespread, but how exactly to use them was a bit of a mystery to many people. That's why DOS For Dummies and Windows For Dummies (which we've updated with every edition of Windows, including Windows 7) made such a difference in people's lives. But we didn't stop with computers. French For Dummies showed everyone that the approach we used to teach people about computers could also be used to help people learn foreign languages. And Dr. Ruth Westheimer's Sex For Dummies enlightened people all over the world about that topic. So move ahead to these chapters and enjoy. It's a classic ride. ~ John Wiley & Sons

Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened by the silence ... For the first time in history, American mass-production workers had stopped a conveyor belt and halted the inexorable movement of factory machinery. ~ Ruth McKenney

By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the knowledge hereafter to be give to her child. Her mind was uncultivated, her reading scant; beyond the mere mechanical arts of education she knew nothing; but she had a refined taste, and excellent sense and judgment to separate the true from the false. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

I usually shop at Charlotte Ruth and Bebe. ~ Christy Romano

My mother was a Swede who grew up in Denmark. When I go there, I visit the street where she grew up and look at her house, which is still there, and the snowberry bush, from which she ate some berries and had to have her stomach pumped. ~ Ruth Rendell

The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating. ~ Ruth Rendell

Delight in your fight and embrace your fear. ~ Ruth Anne Garcia

Give yourself up to this moment. Dare to see it. Now look down at your feet; slip out of those invisible tethers. Then ask: Where would you take yourself right this moment if you walked toward your most heartfelt dream? What would your life look like? What would your body look and feel like? What level of energy would you have? What might be your favorite activity? What would your daily life include? Imagine happiness - the sweet glow of inner contentment, the way it tastes and smells and feels. ~ Chris Downie

He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out. ~ Casey Stengel

Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole. ~ Jane Leavy

Why is it that bad things have to happen so you learn there are lots of good people in the world?" -Ruthie ~ Ruth Behar

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end. ~ Ruth Reichl

She didn't really know London, only lived in it. ~ Ruth Rendell

People seldom think of soup for summer, so they are unusual - an interesting, unusual touch for the first course or for dessert. I find cold soups very refreshing. I serve them in cups rather than in bowls, usually, and let people sip them. You don't really need a spoon for soups that are all one consistency. ~ Ruth Glick

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now. ~ Mickey Gilley

The dragon took his other arm. But he is still a dragonslayer, no matter what. ~ Ruth Ford Elward

Nonsense. God is watching."
- Baby Ruth, as she drinks from a pitcher of sea water. From the novel, "Cream of the Wheat. ~ Greg Jolley

There were angry clouds building up behind the moutains, black-gray clouds, great clumps of them colored just like cotton balls after Aunt Ruth cleaned off her eye makeup from a big night out, all gunky with mascara and eye shadow. (p 378) ~ Emily M. Danforth

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden. ~ Ruth Stout

I've been going to the library, looking up our history. There's a ton of it in anthropology books, a ton of it, Ruth. We haven't always been hated. Why didn't we grow up knowing that? ~ Leslie Feinberg

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs. ~ Babe Ruth

I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories. ~ Ruth Rendell

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. ~ Ruth Hurmence Green

Look, it's her faith, all right? There's no need to be offensive."

"I'm not being offensive. You cannot, by definition, offend someone who's not here. Offense has to be taken, not just given. ~ Ruth Ware

I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?' ~ Ruth Reichl

Ruth looked for the water mark several times during the day. She knew it was there, would always be there, but she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was life and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside herself. ~ Toni Morrison

Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in time in meet him. Obviously, he was probably the most important sports figure in the world at that time. Hopefully, someday when I pass away, I get to meet him, and then I can really find out what he was really like. ~ Mark McGwire

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price. ~ Ruth Handler

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good. ~ Babe Ruth

I think about Ruth walking down the street on East End and wonder how many other residents questioned what she was doing there, even if they never said it to her face. How incredibly easy it is to hide behind white skin, I think, looking at these probable supremacists. The benefit of the doubt is in your favor. You're not suspicious. ~ Jodi Picoult

Another way to look at the problem is to investigate shifts in the structure of taxation, which both reveal profound reconfigurations of power (understood here as responsibility, which is also authority and autonomy) between levels of the state, and newly emerging relationships between all kinds of capitalists and all kinds of workers. ~ Ruth Wilson Gilmore

In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction. ~ Jack Ketchum