Lisa Gardner quote: "You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.<br />You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough."

All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. ...
LISA GARDNER

I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.
LISA GARDNER

When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a smal...
LISA GARDNER

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by fl...
LISA GARDNER

It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also pe...
LISA GARDNER

I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in thi...
LISA GARDNER

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.
LISA GARDNER

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that m...
LISA GARDNER

There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.
LISA GARDNER

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a ...
LISA GARDNER

I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But...
LISA GARDNER

I always know that I can make it no matter what I go through. Because Jesus said, "during the worst ...
LISA

Do not measure a relationship by your hearts desires, but only what you perceive through vision alon...
LISA

Never take advice from someone who is swift to speak and slow to listen, or swift to listen and slow...
LISA

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of c...
HOWARD GARDNER

If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you wor...
GAYLE GARDNER

In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER

What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it...
GARDNER DOZOIS

When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train...
GARDNER DOZOIS

I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more ...
GARDNER DOZOIS

When I first started editing a 'Year's Best' volume in the '70s, the job was pretty ...
GARDNER DOZOIS

Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share...
GARDNER DOZOIS

Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Micha...
GARDNER DOZOIS

An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has pote...
GARDNER DOZOIS

Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, an...
AVA GARDNER

Hemp has the potential to be a major boon to Colorado agriculture, giving farmers another viable and...
CORY GARDNER

We must pursue immigration reform - it's something we have to do, something that starts with bor...
CORY GARDNER

It's a family; lacrosse is not like any other sport, it's more of a way of life.
ADAM GARDNER

I've been to a few of those and they've been really powerful.
ADAM GARDNER

It's great not only talking about community service in theory but actually doing it.
ADAM GARDNER

I never really thought of community service as a movement, but it is.
ADAM GARDNER

Reverb is a nonprofit group my wife and I started a few years ago.
ADAM GARDNER

New Hampshire has always been a good state.
ADAM GARDNER

The fact is, our men and women in uniform, the bravest in the world, did everything they could to pr...
CORY GARDNER

All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of w...
JOHN GARDNER

Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!
DONALD GARDNER

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER

There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't...
ROBERT GARDNER

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
AVA GARDNER

If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
EDWARD GARDNER

It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
EDWARD GARDNER

If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is...
MARTIN GARDNER

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in ot...
AVA GARDNER

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
HERBERT GARDNER

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
ED GARDNER

Never offer advice just to appear concerned.
JACK GARDNER

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whateve...
HOWARD GARDNER

I think the American people aren't looking for loyalty amongst candidates to other candidates. W...
CORY GARDNER

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you'...
HOWARD GARDNER

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can mak...
HOWARD GARDNER

While we may continue to use the words
smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may
persist f...
HOWARD GARDNER

The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.
AVA GARDNER

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistak...
AVA GARDNER

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: "She can't talk! She can'...
AVA GARDNER

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, ...
AVA GARDNER

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. ...
AVA GARDNER

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
AVA GARDNER

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
AVA GARDNER

Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, an...
AVA GARDNER

I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
AVA GARDNER

For the loot, honey, for the loot.
AVA GARDNER

Today is a very sad day for America.
ANTHONY GARDNER

They fail to meet our major criteria, which was maximum access and preservation of that bedrock area...
ANTHONY GARDNER

We are not opposed to the rebuilding moving forward. We just don't want it to move forward and the p...
ANTHONY GARDNER

Governor Pataki, you've ruled Ground Zero with an iron fist for too long. You've let corporate elite...
ANTHONY GARDNER

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #...
HOWARD GARDNER

As a result of the strategic patience policy, we now have North Korea testing four times an atomic w...
CORY GARDNER

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.
GARDNER DICKINSON

Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence ...
CORY GARDNER

We have antiquated policies that were put in place in the 1970s that prohibit us from exporting our ...
CORY GARDNER

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Golem...
HOWARD GARDNER

Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and s...
SALLY GARDNER

I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound.
SALLY GARDNER

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into someth...
AVA GARDNER

The plan right now is to expose them to both positions. I think the center field position is more of...
BILLY GARDNER

We've seen it before and we didn't want to quit on an inning. It gives us momentum but the momentum ...
BILLY GARDNER

In the playoffs, some of these guys haven't been battle tested so you're never sure which way it wil...
BILLY GARDNER

The most important thing is that the guys in this clubhouse got better. We're in the development bus...
BILLY GARDNER

The off days will help physically and mentally. We're at a point where it's been a long season and e...
BILLY GARDNER

Every pitch and at-bat is important in the playoffs. Kids learn how to play in pressure situations a...
BILLY GARDNER

He was pretty good out there. He gave us a chance to win. That's doing his job.
BILLY GARDNER

He wants to learn. You take that work ethic and his physical ability, which he has a lot of, and you...
BILLY GARDNER

Every at-bat is critical in a tie ballgame like that. We kept getting guys on and in scoring positio...
BILLY GARDNER

Even with a five-run lead against a team like Lancaster, it felt like a one-run game. It was importa...
BILLY GARDNER

She's a very loving person. She just loved children.
BRETT GARDNER

I've been wearing a lot of hats, doing everyday business and trying to deal with the issue. It would...
BRETT GARDNER

[Excalibur has only 10 employees; that's the good news and the bad news. Small companies don't have ...
BRETT GARDNER

I've been playing up and down. Coming here, I had a way I had swung the bat all my life. We worked o...
BRETT GARDNER

We have had a lot of requests about our Y2K status, but no one has offered in any way to give us a h...
BRETT GARDNER

It's an admission of guilt. That's what makes me happy. The money had nothing to do with it,
BILL GARDNER

I don't like to make predictions, but I think we have the ability to be very competitive.
BILL GARDNER

I see our biggest asset as being the fact that a lot of these girls have played together for two or ...
BILL GARDNER

I'm happy with the group of kids that we have. I think we'll field a competitive team, and we'll loo...
BILL GARDNER

We lost runs in the first inning and had a runner on in the second.
BILL GARDNER

We have a definite deadline. There is no missing the deadline.
BILL GARDNER

We go through cycles, where one category is popular for a couple of years, and then another. Since 1...
BILL GARDNER

Following the recent management change and restructure, Eidos is able to reevaluate its calendar of ...
BILL GARDNER

We're not going to win the section, but we played this team tough, and if we keep playing like this,...
BILL GARDNER

You can find plenty of campaigns where a boost from Iowa never materialized, more than when it didoc...
BILL GARDNER

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denma...
HOWARD GARDNER

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
AVA GARDNER

Now, President Obama has to make a decision. He can either propose a nominee who can win over the ma...
CORY GARDNER

We can't disrespect people for having a different opinion.
CORY GARDNER

There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria ri...
CORY GARDNER

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could ...
HOWARD GARDNER

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words o...
HOWARD GARDNER

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
ED GARDNER

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings
ED GARDNER

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is...
MARTIN GARDNER

What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.
CINDY GARDNER

Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful an...
GEORGE GARDNER

When the amateur writer lets a bad sentence stand in his final draft, though he knows its bad, the...
J. GARDNER

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.
GARDNER DICKINSON

It was a good win, we kind of controlled just abut every aspect of the game.
TIM GARDNER

While our nation's attention is rightly focused on the Middle East, the North Korean threat has ...
CORY GARDNER

I'm surrounded by 100-year-old mansions that are landmark-stature compared to other states.
RICH GARDNER

Senator Udall focused his entire campaign as a social-issues warrior, and that was rejected by the p...
CORY GARDNER

One of the things that's always amazed me about people who attack me, saying I'm opposed to ...
CORY GARDNER

In the rural markets it's more difficult for cable companies to offer broadband there and (satellite...
JEFF GARDNER

The Keystone Pipeline would create good-paying jobs. Not only where the pipeline is being built, goo...
CORY GARDNER

This is a government program run amok, and we owe it to the taxpayers to find out exactly what happe...
CORY GARDNER

This is the second time in a couple of years that a limousine has been used as a getaway car in a ba...
DAN GARDNER

We are not taking positions on these issues. Our goal is to educate, not persuade.
KENT GARDNER

Advertising signs that have been misplaced, are expired or have been put up in advance of a sale's s...
CHARLES GARDNER

The transaction reinforces our commitment to grow our electricity business and to continue offering ...
ROY GARDNER

Nobody expected Darryl Glenn to win, and he's won every time.
CORY GARDNER

I used to be a motor mechanic.
FRANK GARDNER

Most didn't know he was here. He was traveling incognito to get away from the campaign trail.
RICK GARDNER

Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually und...
HOWARD GARDNER

Over time and cultures, the most robust and most effective form of communication is the creation of ...
HOWARD GARDNER

I often find that entrepreneurs think my theory is great. My interpretation is that they are people ...
HOWARD GARDNER

I think tolerating a certain degree of failure-not because it's good for you but because it's a nece...
HOWARD GARDNER

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things t...
HOWARD GARDNER

I would be a little distressed should it be only one. I think...the world's operators are going to p...
PETER GARDNER

Everyday I turned a 'you can't' into a 'you can,'
RULON GARDNER

One of the things that has crept into the Microsoft discussion is usually Total Cost of Ownership. M...
DANA GARDNER

I think we've really bettered ourselves this year.
MARK GARDNER

Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - i...
SUE GARDNER

To say that we should engage in some hypothetical about, 'Will I vote for Trump,' that's...
CORY GARDNER

I have to think that many employers put the burden on an employee to make this work, ... They say, '...
DANA GARDNER

Funding for women's healthcare must actually go to fund women's healthcare, not to line the ...
CORY GARDNER

Both ... served our schools for many years. Both were role models for our youths and well liked by o...
ALEXANDER GARDNER

We as a community, as the district, should show how much we appreciate them. I can't think of a bett...
ALEXANDER GARDNER

It's been Bruins Stadium long enough. It needs a name. And these are the two top Bruins.
ALEXANDER GARDNER

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck ...
HOWARD GARDNER

What we are doing is attempting to open it up to appeal to the broad base of the community. There's ...
CHARLES GARDNER

Since I've been here, I think St. Stanislaus is the only team we've played that we haven't beaten. H...
CHRIS GARDNER

We already know lice is part of Interior Alaska now, but can it be managed? That's the question. I t...
CRAIG GARDNER

When Hooper got up we all breathed a sigh of relief.
SPENCER GARDNER

Make sure the people of Laramie stay healthy, or my sister Marcella will come visit you, ... With my...
RULON GARDNER

This way, somebody can have the keepsake or whatever, but then also it helps out wrestling and hopef...
RULON GARDNER

Look, their [banner] was already up here. We wish they had taken it down. Please give me your flag.
RULON GARDNER

My heart goes out to the Braswell family.
MARK GARDNER

I would like to thank my family and friends and the members of the Faith Community Church for their ...
MARK GARDNER

A few more improvements this week will be good.
MARK GARDNER

He's been one of their leaders since he was a freshman.
MARK GARDNER

The guy has been a winner and he's been on teams that have competed in championships. He can only he...
MARK GARDNER

The city was looking at other places besides schools -- spots where children are likely to be presen...
MARK GARDNER

People of all age and ability will be able to participate.
CHRIS GARDNER

The (Sailors) gave a good effort and played four quarters. We'll just come back next week and step i...
CHRIS GARDNER

We have plans to build 873 single-family units.
CHRIS GARDNER

People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published,...
JOHN GARDNER

It was a really low-budget film. The set was in her garage, really low budget.
BECCA GARDNER

The first day on set, we just hung out. We went to lunch and then we read lines and started shooting...
BECCA GARDNER

The leg is not too bad and I am just doing rehab stuff at the moment, trying to make it strong,
ANTHONY GARDNER

They've never justified the need for this extra platform. The priority is the commercial, and then t...
ANTHONY GARDNER

We maintain that it doesn't belong on the site, ... It doesn't belong on sacred ground. Politics do ...
ANTHONY GARDNER

The International Freedom Center has now confirmed that it plans to take the memory of 9/11 and use ...
ANTHONY GARDNER

The IFC threatens to turn
ground zero into a place of endless controversy rather than a place o...
ANTHONY GARDNER

The IFC threatens to turn Ground Zero into a place of endless controversy, not a place of honor.
ANTHONY GARDNER

The IFC threatens to turn ground zero into a place of endless controversy rather than a place of hon...
ANTHONY GARDNER

We have no capacity to handle a Hurricane Katrina or an avian flu outbreak. We can barely handle a r...
ANGELA GARDNER

A C-minus is horrible. When my children come home with a C-minus, they get grounded.
ANGELA GARDNER

We have to be realistic. The state, we think, can help some. It's not going to be able to do it all.
CHESTER GARDNER

Una volta, il mio capitano disse che nella vita si incontrano persone che, crediamo, diventeranno no...
SALLY GARDNER

We're an oil and gas company. In times past, when we tried to get into other businesses, we didn't d...
DAVE GARDNER

It felt very good to work for an organization that sends a message that I believe in. And most impor...
BETTY GARDNER

I enrolled in the welding program because the welding we did in sculpture class was just enough to w...
BETTY GARDNER

I thought I'd try college and try to find myself. At 45 years old, I wanted to see what I really wan...
BETTY GARDNER

You guys can relax. I don't mind if you cuss, I can take an off-color joke, and you don't need to wa...
BETTY GARDNER

It's hard to get in, and it's hard to stay in. There's a big weeding out.
PHIL GARDNER

I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not...
MARTIN GARDNER

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
AVA GARDNER

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using th...
HOWARD GARDNER

Since we are really close to where tornado alley is we can get a tornado just like they do. It makes...
CAITLYN GARDNER

Industrial hemp is a safe substance with many practical commercial applications.
CORY GARDNER

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridi...
MARTIN GARDNER

The difference, we have to purchase. It's a big cost to us.
DAVE GARDNER

Energy issues are important to people, and we're are struggling with how to deal with that publicly.
DAVE GARDNER

There has been progress, and there have been intermittent problems.
DAVE GARDNER

We wrote the first line of code at 11 p.m. Wednesday night. Then we wrote the first line of code for...
DAVE GARDNER

We wrote the first line of code at 11 p.m. Wednesday night,
DAVE GARDNER

I've definitely been asked about some of the characters. These characters are composites. In general...
DAVE GARDNER

We were rushing things when we didn't need to rush. Hopefully we'll learn from this and grow up afte...
MICHAEL GARDNER

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whe...
CHRIS GARDNER

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridi...
MARTIN GARDNER

This report is a serious wake-up call to the nation. It shows that in every category, some states ar...
ANGELA GARDNER

The amount of XML traffic will accelerate rapidly and it's incumbent that vendors like SAP build, bu...
DANA GARDNER

Guantanamo Bay is a facility that I think should be utilized by the United States for detainees, say...
CORY GARDNER

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

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You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

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You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

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You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.