Sheldon Quotes

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs. ~ Sheldon Vanauken

Her blouse, and he saw the bruised imprints of two fingers. Just then a gang of blacks came out from among the trees carrying the wounded man on a rough stretcher. "Romantic, isn't it?" Sheldon sneered, following Joan's startled gaze. "And now I'll have to play surgeon and doctor him up. Funny, this twentieth-century ~ Jack London

Modern Western empires are different from empires of old as well as the Soviet empire of yesterday in one important respect: they combine a democratic political system at home with despotism abroad. Even in the German case, as Sheldon Wolin reminds us, Nazi terror was not applied to the population generally. So long as democracy is a living reality at home, democratic empires are potentially self-correcting. ~ Mahmood Mamdani

Once you have the solution, the problem might not be interesting. ~ Sidney Sheldon

It's unfair that I've been treated unfair, but it doesn't stop me. ~ Sheldon Adelson

Our Christianity loves its ease and comfort too well to take up anything so rough and heavy as a cross. And ~ Charles M. Sheldon

In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth. ~ Sidney Sheldon

One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure. ~ Sheldon Lee Glashow

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting. ~ Sidney Sheldon

The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable. ~ Sidney Sheldon

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time. ~ Sidney Sheldon

One of my favorite Christian authors, Sheldon Vanauken, a friend of C. S. Lewis, said years ago that when you get a new car you should also get a hammer. Take that hammer and go out and put the first dent in the brand new car yourself. Then you're not afraid to use it anymore. That way you don't have to park at the end of the parking lot to protect from door dings, because you've already put the first dent in it yourself. Vanauken's point was this: things are not to be loved, they're to be used. The corollary to that is this: people are not to be used, they're to be loved. ~ Randy Harris

I spent an hour getting ready for work, an hour travelling to work, nine hours at work, and an hour travelling home. By the time I got back, I'd be so tired that I'd just eat my dinner, watch some dumbed-down television and browse the internet. I'd fall asleep. Then I'd wake up and repeat the whole process again the next day. Living ~ Joss Sheldon

You are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die. ~ Sidney Sheldon

While most would agree with Socrates that, "the unexamined life is not worth living," a lesser-known quote by Sheldon Kopp might be more important here: "The unlived life is not worth examining. ~ Meg Jay

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives. ~ Sheldon Richman

Love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowing that we can do nothing to save the other from his pain. (23) ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not. ~ Sheldon Richman

What is it to be a follower of Jesus? What does it mean to imitate Him? What does it mean to walk in His steps? ~ Charles M. Sheldon

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces. ~ Sidney Sheldon

They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth. ~ Sidney Sheldon

When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications. ~ Sheldon Whitehouse

The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand. ~ Sheldon Jackson

He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.' ~ Sheldon Adelson

Research in self-disclosure supports my own experience that the personal openness of the guru facilitates and invites the increased openness of the pilgrim. (24) ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer
4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s. ~ Sheldon Whitehouse

I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1. ~ Sheldon Adelson

Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds ... the race will survive. ~ Charles Sheldon

Noa Noah shook his head and grinned. "He no savvee me Tahitian," he explained. "He savvee me wear pants all the same white man." "You'll have to give him a course in 'Sartor Resartus,'" Sheldon laughed, as he came down and began to make friends with Satan. It chanced just then that Adamu Adam and Matauare, two of Joan's ~ Jack London

I call them the Sons of Anarchy Muhammad WilkerSON, Damon HarriSON, Sheldon RichardSON ~ Jon Gruden

I had always served beauty. Davy and I together had loved beauty. Now, maybe, I was worshipping beauty in the Christian God while Davy was worshipping God. There may be danger in the love of beauty, though it seems treason to say it. Perhaps it can be a snare. ~ Sheldon Vanauken

He's on the school bus and Uncle Wade is standing outside the window. The bus hasn't pulled out yet and Uncle Wade is punching the air and ducking his head and giving him a thumbs up sign and then a big smile. The big smile says do not worry. It says you can do this. ... His smile says a lot and so do his punching hands and his hooked thumbs, and before everything else it can possibly say, it says the thing Nick needs most. The big smile says I love you. ~ Sheldon Lee Compton

I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality. ~ Joss Sheldon

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.' ~ Sheldon Richman

I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something. ~ Sheldon Adelson

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel. ~ Sidney Sheldon

Offering thanks and singing praises to God, compels the Lord to act in our behalf, to either calm the storm to a whisper, or to give us the strength to endure the storm. Whichever He chooses, He brings us out of our distress and into His peace." Meet Him on the Mountain pg. 138. ~ Sheldon K. Bass

What exactly does that expression mean, 'friends with benefits'? Does he provide her with health insurance? ~ Chuck Lorre

I had a screening in Baltimore where one of the hardest individuals just broke into tears at the end. That's the response you want. ~ Sheldon Candis

If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you. ~ Sidney Sheldon

I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the present, when my eyes are closed, so that I may see clearly. ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct a sentence. I find that enjoyable work. ~ Sheldon Harnick

People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts ... There's a simple way to keep money out of politics: Keep politics out of our money. ~ Sheldon Richman

No thanky-you; you can't overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not the hate, and the violent but not the violence. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, and war begets war. ~ Joss Sheldon

There's something called From 'Alchemy to Quarks,' which will teach you everything you have to know, you want to know, about physics. ~ Sheldon Lee Glashow

Some conservatives are surprised to find people on the Left supporting the war in Afghanistan. It's not surprising at all ... It is hard for the government to prosecute a war and not expand ... Conservatives may think they can support war and oppose the expansion of the state, but that is like trying to square the circle. What makes them think they can contain the expansion? ~ Sheldon Richman

I'm not in business to make money for the other guy. I'm in business to make money for myself. ~ Sheldon Adelson

Already churning. If I come, will you make Dad put ~ Sidney Sheldon

The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind. ~ Sidney Sheldon

Her face lit up; illuminated by the enlightenment of recognition and the innocence of surprise. ~ Joss Sheldon

Her death ... brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault. ~ Sheldon Vanauken

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides. ~ Sidney Sheldon

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

But she was looking into the past, trying to understand when it was that all the laughter died. ~ Sidney Sheldon

only in this life you made your own miracles, because god was busy elsewhere. ~ Sidney Sheldon

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important. ~ Sidney Sheldon

Must Jesus bear the cross alone And all the world go free? No, there's a cross for every one, And there's a cross for me. ~ Charles M. Sheldon

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot. ~ Sheldon Harnick

Lines of light ran up towering structures, fading into the stars. The world felt vast, as if anything could get lost in it. ~ Cory Michael Sheldon

It would not be completely unreasonable to suggest that if J.K. Rowling, Dan Brown, and Dean Koontz were to get together in a time machine and travel back to early 1982 so that they could have a drunken, care-free, passionate orgy with Douglas Adams, that I might have been the love child of such a coming together. ~ Mark Sheldon

It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own. ~ Ashwin Sanghi

No man can be fully a man unless he comes to terms with the female double within him. So too, with women and their male shadows. Those who do not know their sexual counterparts are absurd caricatures of the identities to which they aspire. Not knowing the hidden other within themselves, they hate and distrust the opposite sex. ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations. ~ Dick Van Dyke

They met in the library searching for old Sidney Sheldon books. Her silence and calmness drew her to him. His brooding nature drew him to her. Conversations flowed like the waters of a water-fall! And every time they met their conversations sparked flames like the forest caught in a wild fire!

There was something in her eyes! Her eyes were expressive and from the first day that they met, they spoke to him a million things! He could know which night she had cried, which night she had slept peacefully and which night of hers had been spent in complete sleeplessness. He began reading her eyes more deeply and passionately than the books in the library...

And being an obsessive man, he did things normal men did not! Like he knew the number of strands of hair that her eye-lashes had! ~ Avijeet Das

Americans live under the delusion that enterprise here is both private and free. It may be nominally private, but it's anything but free. Unfortunately, most people don't know what freedom is. So they are unfazed when they hear that before you can do anything of a commercial nature, you need government permission. ~ Sheldon Richman

The days before December 21st, 2012 there were all sorts of TV specials about the end of the world and the Mayan calendar. I always thought it cut off there because some guy said, 'Hey Bob, don't you think we've gone far enough in the future for this thing? ~ Nicole Sheldon

The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes twist everything. You are so sure you know what the promise promised! And the danger is that when what He means by 'wind' appears you will ignore it because it is not what you thought it would be - as He Himself was rejected because He was not like the Messiah the Jews had in mind. ~ Sheldon Vanauken

But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83) ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded. ~ Sidney Sheldon

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel. ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

Amy's beloved Pride and Prejudice is a flawless work of genius. He's proud, she's prejudiced, it just works. ~ Sheldon Cooper

Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love. ~ Sheldon Harnick

Goodness & love are as real as their terrible opposites, and, in truth, far more real, though I say this mindful of the enormous evils ... But love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed of wisdom. ~ Sheldon Vanauken

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains. ~ Sheldon Richman

A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a family member?" She whispered the question in his ear, trying not to disturb Sheldon.
The question hung there like a beautiful chord, ringing in the air. Henry was Chinese, Sheldon obviously wasn't. They looked nothing alike. Nothing at all. "I'm distant family," Henry said. ~ Jamie Ford

He had made money his god. As soon as that god was gone out of his little world there was nothing more to worship; and when a man's object of worship is gone he has no more to live for. ~ Charles M. Sheldon

Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it. ~ Sheldon Lee Glashow

So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free the slaves; and, especially, his not freeing the slaves in 'loyal' Kentucky and other United States areas or even in Confederate areas occupied by United States troops, such as New Orleans. ~ Sheldon Vanauken

Nothing lasts forever. ~ Sidney Sheldon

Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts. ~ Sheldon Rampton

The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it," I offered tentatively. "It was very convincing. ~ Joss Sheldon

The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever. ~ Sheldon Whitehouse

My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general sense than being good parents for me. They wanted to appear normal; respectable and responsible. But they weren't prepared to acknowledge my individual needs. ~ Joss Sheldon

If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax. ~ Sheldon Richman

Ethan stared at Krysta. A teasing gleam entered his eyes, making Étienne narrow his own as his hackles rose. Offering Krysta a flirtatious grin, Ethan said, "I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours."
In a heartbeat, Étienne drew a dagger and threw it.
The hilt struck Ethan right in the center of his forehead, snapping his head back. "Ow! Shhhhit! What the hell, man?"
Krysta gaped up at Étienne, who squirmed as everyone at the table stared at him.
He cleared his throat , but didn't know what to say. He hadn't really meant to do that. He had just reacted.
"Oh yeah," Sheldon said. "He has fallen and he has fallen hard. ~ Dianne Duvall

Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else? ~ Sheldon Adelson

And should I wear my mask too long, when I take it off and try to discard it, I may find that I have thrown my face away with it. ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

My prayers are answered. No: a glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. And there must perhaps always be just enough lack of demonstrative certainty to make free choice possible: for what could we do but accept if the faith were like the multiplication table? ~ Sheldon Vanauken

It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the words, and perhaps the courage to speak with unlocked hearts, that we don't know at all that it is the same with others. ~ Sheldon Vanauken

Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could. ~ Sheldon Whitehouse

Everything passes. Nothing is forever. Least of all love. Cameron ~ Sidney Sheldon

Don't condemn yourself or lose heart when you sometimes fail to measure up to your own principles; instead, get back up, embrace the imperfection of your own humanity, and go back with confidence and energy to your pursuit. - MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Sheldon Whitehouse

Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere. ~ Sheldon Whitehouse

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned. ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms. ~ Sheldon Vanauken

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10) ~ Sheldon B. Kopp

I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem. ~ Sheldon Whitehouse

Get over here. Sheldon's had an idea." "Who's Sheldon?", said Isabelle. ~ Cassandra Clare

The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I do not mean that he can simply hear the other, but that he will listen actively and purposefully, responding with the instrument of his trade, that is, with the personal vulnerability of his own trembling self. This listening is that which will facilitate the patient's telling of his tale, the telling that can set him free. (5) ~ Sheldon B. Kopp