Lindsey Davis quotes

“Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.”
-- Lindsey Davis

Source : "The Course of Honor". Book by Lindsey Davis, 1997.

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“Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.”
-- Lindsey Davis

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“Most professionals specialize in only part of the complex community revitalization process. Incomplete efforts usually create messy, expensive, demoralizing failures. Few specialists understand how to bring a place back to life with a holistic approach. If anyone understands the complete revitalization process, it's Storm Cunningham. He's spent over a decade rigorously studying successes and failures worldwide. He can look at a community, regional, or organizational regeneration or redevelopment process, and quickly spot what's wrong...what's missing.”
-- Lindsey Davis

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“A good bathe when you really need it can get you over almost anything.”
-- Lindsey Davis

Source : Lindsey Davis (2007). “Shadows in Bronze: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery”, p.122, Macmillan

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“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”

“If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs”

“Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers

“Remember you love writing.  It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t.  If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.”

“Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.”

“Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion”

“Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara”