“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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“All right, big guy, down you go."
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"And look who's here. It's Nurse Vishous.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Lover Eternal
“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.”
― Abraham Verghese, quote from Cutting for Stone
“It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Speaker for the Dead
“...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.”
― Edith Hamilton, quote from Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
“I do want you," I say to him, my voice shaking. "I want you so much it scares me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, quote from Ignite Me
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