Amy McAuley Quotes

“Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.”

“Words that defy reality are ominous. And it’s ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure the wise and worthy.”

“The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.”

“When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you" - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking.When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, "If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you." I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised.Even Mai Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, "I know your home." Which sounded pretty ominous.”

“If I sound as if I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductive reasoning to generalize, and I suppose this sometimes ends up sounding like unlucky prophecies. You know why? Because reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. You have to only open a newspaper on any given day and weigh the good news versus the bad, and you'll see what I mean.”

“Respect yourself..you may not be able to get someone to respect you but you can chose not to be disrespected.”

“The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.”

“Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls.”

“To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.”

“For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.”