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Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.
— George Iles
Suspicion is a tenuous thing, so impalpable that the exact moment of its birth is not easy to determine.
— Francis Iles
into another identity. And I
— Greg Iles
blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as "untouchables.
— Greg Iles
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
— George Iles
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
— George Iles
We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us.
— Greg Iles
The colonel had a single vice - whiskey - and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.
— Greg Iles
Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
— George Iles
Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution
— George Iles
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
— George Iles
When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.
— George Iles
Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
— George Iles
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.
— George Iles
A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.
— Greg Iles
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle
— Greg Iles
Mom covers the wrought-iron patio table with newspaper, and Dad dumps the steaming crawfish
— Greg Iles
PET scan and gene therapy. "I need you
— Greg Iles
The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.
— Greg Iles
I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it.
— Greg Iles
When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.
— Greg Iles
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.
— George Iles
God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When
— Greg Iles
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.
— George Iles
fervent, will not cure the afflicted. Nor
— Greg Iles
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
— George Iles
Even chitlins smell good to a starving man.
— Greg Iles
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.
— Greg Iles
And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.
— Greg Iles
Whenever life gets too good, whenever fate hands you something wonderful, something else gets taken away.
— Greg Iles
Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.
— Greg Iles
learned a long time ago, if you're going to wait for this world to be fair, you're going to be waiting in the grave.
— Greg Iles
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.
— George Iles
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
— George Iles
The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.
— Greg Iles
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they're more certain they are their own.
— Greg Iles
Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.
— Greg Iles
Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.
— George Iles
Dumbness and silence are two different things.
— George Iles
Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.
— George Iles
Because death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then the things he holds closest die with him.
— Greg Iles
Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.
— Greg Iles
the embarrassment
— Greg Iles
There's nothing harder than fighting alone, with no one to keep you company in your foxhole.
— Greg Iles
There is always something.
— Greg Iles
No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.
— George Iles
Some things we must pass over in silence.
— Greg Iles
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.
— George Iles
I don't really understand the world anymore. But maybe there's some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together.
— Greg Iles
Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.
— George Iles
I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.
— Greg Iles
A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.
— George Iles
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
— George Iles
Sheriff Dennis lifts an Ole Miss coffee mug off the desk and spits tobacco juice into it. "I like spitting on the Rebels," he says distractedly.
— Greg Iles
carefully negotiated his way
— Greg Iles
I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.
— Greg Iles
Kaiser and Lenz are staring at each other like hunters who have walked into a thicket after a lion and found a unicorn.
— Greg Iles
change my conviction.
— Greg Iles
her? I wonder. "Tom?" I say, taking advantage of
— Greg Iles
God is all powerful.
God is good.
Evil exists.
You can reconcile any two of those statements, but not all three. — Greg Iles
God is good.
Evil exists.
You can reconcile any two of those statements, but not all three. — Greg Iles
'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.
— Greg Iles