27 Quotes by Pat Frank

Since The Day, he had lived in the imperative present, not daring to plan beyond the next meal or the next day. This bit of paper tacked on peeling white paint abruptly enlarged his perspective, as if, stumbling through a black tunnel, he saw, or thought he saw, a chink of light. If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.

When you examined the facts judicially, and asked which would provide the greatest good for the greatest number, there could be only one answer.

But he is dying faster than he should. The better a man is at business, the worse in retirement.

The only bad parts of it were cooking for one and eating alone.

The bell announced that there was food on the table and a women in the kitchen.

There’s an old saying that anyone can make colonel on his own, but it takes a wife to make a general.

One calling for optimism, pragmatism, and a belief that all problems might be solved, with enough courage, determination, good.

He had a feel for it, the capacity to stir a headful of unrelated facts until they congealed into a pattern arrowing the future. Dutch.

He knew he should not have spared time for tears, and would not, ever again.