William Harrow Quotes

She extended her hand. "I'm afraid you have the better of me, sir. I've not made the pleasure of your acquaintance."
He gave her proffered hand a long look before meeting her gaze once more, as though giving her the chance to change her mind. "I am Temple."
The Duke of Lamont.
The murderer.
She stepped back, her hand falling involuntarily at the thought before she could stop it. "Oh."
His lips twisted in a wry smile. "Now you're wishing you hadn't come here after all."
Her mind raced. He wouldn't hurt her. He was Bourne's partner. He was Mr. Cross's partner. It was the middle of the day. People were not killed in Mayfair in the middle of the day.
And for all she'd heard about this dark, dangerous man, there wasn't a single stitch of proof that he'd done that which he was purported to have done.
She extended her hand once more. "I am Philippa Marbury."
One black brow arched, but he took her hand firmly. "Brave girl."
"There's no proof that you're what they say."
"Gossip is damning enough."
She shook her head. "I am a scientist. Hypotheses are useless without evidence."
One side of his mouth twitched. "Would that the rest of England were as thorough. ~ Sarah MacLean

Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way. ~ William Bridges

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone. ~ William Faulkner

Well, at the time, we certainly regarded them [Elianor and Franklin Roosevelt] as partners. We did not know what has since come out about the difficulties of their marital life, or the problems that Franklin gave Eleanor and his mother gave Eleanor, in many respects. We didn't know much about that. ~ William A. Rusher

Never assume the obvious is true. ~ William Safire

There are two ways to be powerful. One is to seek and acquire power, the other is not to need it. There are also two ways to be rich. One is to gain riches, and the other is not to need them. ~ William Sloane Coffin

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. ~ William Hazlitt

All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep. ~ William Lavender

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes. ~ William Watson

The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease ~ William James

I remember thinking when I was younger - we used to take holidays to Spain and France, and I just thought I was never going to get further than Spain or France. I really didn't when I was younger. And then I started auditioning for 'Narnia,' and the first thing when I got the part was go straight to New Zealand, halfway around the world. ~ William Moseley

I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels. ~ William Shakespeare

Herbes ... comfort the wearied braine with fragrant smells which yielde a certaine kind of nourishment. ~ William H. Coles

A man's real possession is his memory; in nothing else is he rich; in nothing else is he poor." Richter has said: "Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven away. Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death. ~ William Walker Atkinson

Discharge my followers; let them hence away,
From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day. ~ William Shakespeare

Exile is a series of photographs without texts. ~ William J. Mitchell

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow. ~ William Faulkner

Colin. Just the name made Alessandro's gut burn. He knew the man wanted his wife, even if Brianna was too blind to see it. The moron had been cuckolded by the paragon of supposed virtue, his wife Carrie and now he had finally opened his eyes and seen what Alessandro had known all along. Brianna put every other woman in New York to shame. No woman could come near her beauty, her passion, her fire. Colin had tossed her aside for the angelic Carrie and now he was changing his mind. Oh no you don't, you miserable fucker. "Her friend indeed," Bernardo drawled, his Italian accent thick with unmistakable implication. "Dat's da truth. He no make her cry all da time." That was directed at Alessandro, with small dark accusatory eyes. "He nice." Alessandro couldn't look at those eyes without feeling a sickening pang of guilt. She's mine! He wanted to scream. Mine! Mine! Mine! "Oh yes. Very nice. He was very nice when he held her at the cemetery and very nice when he was dancing with her at Adresca." That made Alessandro's head lift in surprise. "Oh yes, my boy. She's been there, cleaning up the rubble and word is that she's working on re-opening it. Her friend Colin has been quite helpful in that endeavour." "I don' like how you say dat," Will said scowling. "Really young William, I only speak the truth," Bernardo taunted. Alessandro's mind was racing. NO! Not Colin. He could not let that imbecile take Brianna away from him. He'd have to be eliminated somehow. Alessandro began to plot a ~ E. Jamie

When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical. ~ William Monahan

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping? ~ William Shakespeare

When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets. ~ William Beebe

Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early. ~ Kate Middleton

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous "Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff? ~ Robert Atkins

There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life. ~ William James

I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them. ~ William Shatner

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle? ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them. ~ William Bernbach

As he walked up past the red and green tennis courts in east Berkeley and saw the swing of the women's hair in the breeze, the crisp strokes that sent the ball over the net like a little bone-white planetoid, it occurred to him that there was still a last chance for a pair of heavenly arms to reach out to him and save him. ~ William T. Vollmann

He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care,
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair. ~ William Butler Yeats

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America. ~ William J. Clinton

Sir William meditated. "Do you recall the name of the saint who was a regular rip before he got religion?" he asked. "I think that applies to most of them," said Fosdike. ~ Edward J. O'Brien

You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller. ~ William Shakespeare

At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows. ~ William Shakespeare

I can work in London. A British journalist asked me if I had any trouble working with an English crew, as an American, and I said I might have if I was from Scotland, but I'm from Massachusetts, which is sort of Oxfordshire, but more intellectual. That's kind of unforgivable but you've got to let them have it. ~ William Monahan

If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society. ~ William Wilberforce

Any magazine editor will tell you, Colin Farrell still sells better than Colin Powell, ~ William Bastone

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. ~ William S. Burroughs

It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he at eighteen knew that it would take more than one person to make. ~ William Faulkner

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons. ~ William J. Clinton

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent. ~ William J. Clinton