"Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn.……" — Sharon Kay Penman
"Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the Middle Ages, and the historical novel is often seen as the unwanted stepchild in the fictional family. I know even more about respect - or the lack thereof - because I live in New Jersey."
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21 Quotes by Sharon Kay Penman
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Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.
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Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait…
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I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it…
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We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt.…
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Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from…
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…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...
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I inhale hope with every breath I take.
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…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.
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It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was…
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There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.
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...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here…
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When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to…
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I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and…
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of…
— Diane Ackerman
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
— Francis Bacon
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The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
— Amy Adams
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
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