Anne McCaffrey quote: "I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept."

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limi...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read i...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Iris...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but als...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
ANNE MCCAFFREY

A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
ANNE MCCAFFREY

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
ANNE MCCAFFREY

Grady could write a football story in 15 minutes, and it would be a good one,
ANNE MCCAFFREY

[Prayer heals. So say thousands of Americans who use prayer to improve their health. According to a ...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

Who tries, does. Who wills, can. Who loves, lives.
ANNE MCCAFFREY

Make no judgments where you have no compassion
ANNE MCCAFFREY

I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspo...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and d...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so caref...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minut...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

The tears I feel today
I'll wait to shed tomorrow.
Though I'll not sleep this night
N...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still is...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

Harper to your word be true
Holder, crafter you also hew
To honesty, integrity, and respec...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather tha...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of free...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, da...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
ANNE MCCAFFREY

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes i...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
ANNE MCCAFFREY

Children's voices - even those who couldn't carry the tune - are always appealing.
ANNE MCCAFFREY

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
ANNE MCCAFFREY

Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the ...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.
Swift born, dream bound and ru...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal sy...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we sa...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a dru...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own childre...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

The technique is particularly effective with young people, who frequently try to emulate the looks, ...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

be killed suddenly, in significant numbers and without warning.
BARRY MCCAFFREY

It's a national issue now. It's not just a California or an Arizona issue. We know that these propon...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

We've got to talk to parents who are taking their young people to an all-night rave and seeing polic...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

He's not listening to drug treatment experts and law enforcement authorities and educators in his ow...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

The medical, scientific process is open to any drug. That includes marijuana. But you have to get th...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

The heart and soul of the national effort ought to be prevention, education and treatment, ... In th...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the o...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

We are now seeing a clear trend, ... Teen drug use is down significantly and rapidly for two straigh...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

As powerful as television is, some experts believe that movies have an even stronger impact on young...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Pa...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.
NADIA MCCAFFREY

in the stage of meltdown and within 24 months will be coming apart.
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

There's been a real reluctance to engage with a problem that affects a lot of American families and ...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Other treatments have been deemed safer and more effective than a psychoactive burning carcinogen se...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Essentially, if you don't smoke cigarettes, you won't smoke marijuana, ... And if you don't smoke ma...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Prejudging that research through a political process would be irresponsible. This isn't medicine; th...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

As a result, the campaign takes a long-term view on working with filmmakers and understands that we ...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

There has to be strict compliance with safety concerns,
BARRY MCCAFFREY

has a reputation of impeccable integrity.
BARRY MCCAFFREY

This is not medicine,
BARRY MCCAFFREY

We're trying to be where the young kids are,
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Young people may think that they are only experimenting, but, as this study shows, they are really g...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

serve as catalysts for coordination of local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to confront...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

a supporting but lesser aspect of a strategy that will be based fundamentally on diplomatic and econ...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

The nation working together has made substantial progress in confronting illegal drug abuse and drug...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Serious challenges remain. Heroin abuse is climbing back, and many kids think heroin is safe because...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

We're going to outline a whole series of measures that deal with the primacy of federal law.
BARRY MCCAFFREY

As encouraging as these numbers are ... it seems to us we need to increase by 2.6 billion by 2007.
BARRY MCCAFFREY

It's a massive threat, not to the United States primarily, but to Europe and the former Soviet Union...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Through substance abuse treatment we address a profound crisis in America, reducing the associated c...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

[Researchers did not propose any restrictions or censorship, saying,] We do not suggest that we want...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Now starts the hard part of actually doing it.
BARRY MCCAFFREY

I'm not sure that I'll ever be able to clock 4.6 (seconds) in the 40-yard dash, but what I can't acc...
JEFF MCCAFFREY

I'm always concerned a bit about creative hypocrisy, because it's $49 billion of U.S. money on drugs...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld doe...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

A giant problem for America. A small number of us, a little more than 1% of the American population ...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

Now, having said that, 6% of our Nation regularly uses drugs, about 12 million people. They are seve...
BARRY MCCAFFREY

He was distracted by a brief surge of adrenaline as he remembered the girl’s blood-soaked body. Fl...
DAVID MCCAFFREY

This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the fo...
LARRY MCCAFFREY

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're ...
KAREN MCCAFFREY

They're alike in a lot of ways. They're very dedicated to basketball, they are very competitive, and...
KAREN MCCAFFREY

It's rare that that happens. But we're certainly happy to have them this year.
KAREN MCCAFFREY

Any time you play Southern Huntingdon its going to be a physical, defensive game. I have all the res...
KAREN MCCAFFREY

I thought after halftime we played more like a team. We had better ball movement and we weren't forc...
KAREN MCCAFFREY

You have to give a lot of the credit to Angie Proper. We really struggled to contain her. They were ...
KAREN MCCAFFREY

I don't see any question about where the moral high ground is here. The American people are eager to...
JEFF MCCAFFREY

I was ready to go. That's where I felt I belonged.
JEFF MCCAFFREY

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother T...
ANNE LAMOTT

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
ANNE CAMPBELL

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and...
ANNE BAXTER

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to b...
ANNE RICE

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
ANNE FRANK

I live in a crazy time.
ANNE FRANK

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not le...
ANNE LAMOTT

Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday...
ANNE HATHAWAY

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and ...
ANNE LAMOTT

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our ...
ANNE LAMOTT

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big ...
ANNE LAMOTT

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
ANNE SPENCER

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
ANNE BRADSTREET

Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more ...
ANNE FADIMAN

I got to the point where the vampire began describing his brother's death, and the whole thing just ...
ANNE RICE

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
ANNE RICE

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and ma...
ANNE BRONTE

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.
ANNE BRONTE

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of ...
ANNE BRONTE

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise...
ANNE BRONTE

There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.
ANNE BRONTE

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
ANNE BRONTE

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I...
ANNE BRONTE

It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for eve...
ANNE BRONTE

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him t...
ANNE BRONTE

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
ANNE BRONTE

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if ...
ANNE BRONTE

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all thin...
ANNE SMEDLEY

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than tha...
ANNE FRANK

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and ...
ANNE FRANK

the conversion of Anne Frank into usable goods.
ANNE FRANK

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK

I love rom-coms, and I was bummed that they sort of stopped making them around the time I was old en...
ANNE HATHAWAY

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the...
ANNE DUDLEY

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the ...
ANNE BURRELL

I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist...
ANNE STEVENSON

Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
ANNE BRADSTREET

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box . . .
ANNE RICE

Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no re...
ANNE RICE

You'll sing a song of victory, eternally, though there is none to be had.
ANNE RICE

I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edw...
ANNE RICE

But at that moment I heard Claudia's voice. She was calling my name. I turned, and, through the tang...
ANNE RICE

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know w...
ANNE RICE

During this crisis you failed us
ANNE RICE

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE

I look around at my peers, and I'm so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool...
ANNE HATHAWAY

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
ANNE LAMOTT

I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we ...
ANNE SEXTON

After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going a...
ANNE BURRELL

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the deva...
ANNE PERRY

I work reasonably hard. Though probably not harder than many people. I work probably eight or nine h...
ANNE PERRY

I am miles ahead with ideas and excitement in the mind, and that is where it all begins. I feel that...
ANNE PERRY

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it s...
ANNE PERRY

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my...
ANNE PERRY

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
ANNE PERRY

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of pe...
ANNE PERRY

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well pr...
ANNE PERRY

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class...
ANNE PERRY

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has sho...
ANNE SULLIVAN

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history, ....
ANNE SULLIVAN

This is a real successful brand with great name recognition and household penetration.
ANNE SULLIVAN

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
ANNE SULLIVAN

Again, it's an elective component for parents and students, but the support is there in the event th...
ANNE SULLIVAN

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger ...
ANNE SULLIVAN

Q-Tips is such a universally recognized and beloved brand with so much versatility. We look forward ...
ANNE SULLIVAN

If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today, ... Re...
ANNE SULLIVAN

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has sho...
ANNE SULLIVAN

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
ANNE BAXTER

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in ...
ANNE LAMOTT

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the...
ANNE FRANK

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle yo...
ANNE ENRIGHT

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,
Or st...
ANNE SPENCER

The house of my body has spoken
often as you rebuild me like blocks,
and promise to come vis...
ANNE SEXTON

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often...
ANNE LAMOTT

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is alwa...
ANNE RICE

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!
ANNE RICE

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the cont...
ANNE RICE

It is not enough to read Hesse
and drink clam chowder,
we must have the answers.
ANNE SEXTON

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be buil...
ANNE SULLIVAN

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
ANNE BRONTë

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co...
ANNE BRONTë

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the ...
ANNE LAMOTT

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist u...
ANNE LAMOTT

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person'...
ANNE FRANK

I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
ANNE SEXTON

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There w...
ANNE LAMOTT

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people w...
ANNE LAMOTT

Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between rea...
ANNE CARSON

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK

But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
ANNE BRONTë

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
ANNE FRANK

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
ANNE FRANK

A quiet conscience makes one strong!
ANNE FRANK

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith in...
ANNE LAMOTT

As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
E...
ANNE SEXTON

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossibl...
ANNE FRANK

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
ANNE BISHOP

A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windo...
ANNE RICE

Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surger...
ANNE SEXTON

It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot o...
ANNE LAMOTT

Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
ANNE BISHOP

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw...
ANNE RICE

When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without...
ANNE SPOLLEN

Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...
ANNE BRONTë

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
ANNE SULLIVAN

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit ra...
ANNE PERRY

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
ANNE SEXTON

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is ...
ANNE SULLIVAN

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you ...
ANNE FRANK

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is ...
ANNE FRANK

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...
ANNE RICE

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.

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