~ Louis L'Amour Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.

[MysteRy]

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

[MysteRy]

Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.

[MysteRy]

Any man can shoot a gun and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.

[MysteRy]

Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle.

[MysteRy]

This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet the water falling in the fountain the girl's voice ... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

[MysteRy]

One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up.

[MysteRy]

She had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it to belong to it to fit into its seasons and its ways.

[MysteRy]

The one law that does not change is that everything changes and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

[MysteRy]

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment heredity and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.