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David Levien famous quotes

05-24-2025

  • If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.

  • Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

  • You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

  • For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

  • We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

  • At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.

  • I leaned forward on the table and leveled her with my steady gaze. “Do not ever speak to her that way again. If she hadn’t agreed to come with me I wouldn’t have come. Don’t underestimate her importance. She’s mine. Respect that.

  • I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.

  • Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.

  • It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

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