“violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from The Daybreakers
“You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from The Daybreakers
“Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from The Daybreakers
“People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from The Daybreakers
“Not that folks disliked me or that I ever went around being mean, but folks never did get close to me and it was most likely my fault. There was always something standoffish about me. I liked folks, but I liked the wild animals, the lonely trails, and the mountains better.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from The Daybreakers
“...people have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gambling, thieving, and robbing are covered over, folks will tolerate it longer than outright violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.”
― Louis L'Amour, quote from The Daybreakers
Louis L'Amour
Born place: in Jamestown, North Dakota, The United States
Born date March 22, 1908
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“It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit. Such as it is, the spirit that we have achieved is fair; and it is indestructibly woven into the tissue of the cosmos. We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be. We die knowing that the promise of further glory outlives us in other galaxies. We die praising the Star Maker, the Star Destroyer.”
― Olaf Stapledon, quote from Star Maker
“I know what I want. A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.”
― Karen Cushman, quote from The Midwife's Apprentice
“I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.”
― Beverly Cleary, quote from Ramona the Pest
“He allowed himself to imagine for the first time that the rest of his life might not be shaped by the misery of his past.”
― Julie Orringer, quote from The Invisible Bridge
“I need a hero. I'm holding out for a hero, in fact, until the morning light. And she's gotta be sure, and it's gotta be soon - because I have been kidnapped by evil faeries - and she's gotta be larger than life”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
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