"Through eons of living in a land so……" — Diana Gabaldon
"Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff."
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204 Quotes by Diana Gabaldon
Diana Gabaldon has 204 quotes on this site.
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It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in…
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If I find I need guidance, I’ll ask.
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And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.
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Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
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I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take…
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I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and…
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Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases
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When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve…
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People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive…
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Hard to believe lightning can strike twice, but it surely did. The moment Caitriona Balfe came on screen, I sat…
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I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me…
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Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at…
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in…
— Teresa of Avila
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Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive…
— James Buchan
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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great…
— Julie Burchill
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
— Thomas Carlyle
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As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real…
— Charles W. Chesnutt
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The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself…
— Ernst Haeckel
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There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in…
— Pope Gregory I
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As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
— Frederick William Faber
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When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will…
— H. L. Mencken
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of…
— Joseph Addison
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