“Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“Constantin Demiris had arranged with the authorities for her body to be buried on the grounds of the cemetery on Psara, his private island in the Aegean. Everyone had remarked on what a beautiful, sentimental gesture it was. In fact, Demiris had arranged for the burial plot to be there so that he could have the exquisite pleasure of walking over the bitch's grave.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“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, quote from Memories of Midnight
“Inspector Tinou sat silent. The Greek police department did not welcome interference from other countries in their affairs. Particularly Americans. They are always too-sou, so sure of themselves.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“Não me cantem canções da luz do dia / Pois o sol é o inimigo dos amantes / Cantem das sombras e da escuridão / E das lembranças da meia-noite.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rather it is measured... In heart.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from Dom Wars: Round Six
“... and out of the awareness of sameness grew the desire for differentiation.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Beneath the Wheel
“The young are right if they have little confidence in the ideas which rule most of their elders. But they are mistaken or misled when they believe that these are still the liberal ideas of the nineteenth century, which, in fact, the younger generation hardly knows. We have little right to feel in this respect superior to our grandfathers; and we should never forget that it is we, the twentieth century, and not they, who have made a mess of things.
If in the first attempt to create a world of free men we have failed, we must try again. The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek, quote from The Road to Serfdom
“She didn't bother taking off her snow-crusted cloak; she came to us quickly, dripping and shivering, her eyes luminous and strained from trying to see beyond the world.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, quote from Winter Rose
“The casualties at Antietam numbered four times the total suffered by American soldiers at the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944. More than twice as many Americans lost their lives in one day at Sharpsburg as fell in combat in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Spanish-American War combined.”
― James M. McPherson, quote from Battle Cry of Freedom
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