I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?
Nicholas Sparks
So Jesus in the throes of his Passion is an image of hope: God is on the side of those who suffer.
Pope Benedict XVI
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan
I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.
Nastassja Kinski
Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.
Habeeb Akande
Through thee, the gracious Muses turn, To Furies, O mine Enemy! And all the things of beauty burn With flames of evil ecstasy. Because of thee, the land of dreams Becomes a gathering place of fears: Until tormented slumber seems One vehemence of useless tears.
Lionel Johnson
I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.
Pieter Zeeman
...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Dear Heart, please go away.
Coco J. Ginger
I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
Lenny Kravitz
Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles
Tahereh Mafi
Life is All About How you Handle Plan BPlan A is always my first choice.You know, the one whereEverything works out to beHappily ever-after.But more often than not,I find myself dealing withThe upside-down, inside-out version --Where nothing goes as it should.It's at this point that the realTest of my character comes in..Do I sink, or do I swim?Do I wallow in self pity and play the victim,Or simply shift gearsAnd make the best of the situation?The choice is all mine...Life is all about how you handle Plan B.
Suzy Toronto
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not
John Keats
This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.
Jon Secada
Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.
Henry Codman Potter
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.
Santosh Kalwar
I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life.
Amy Grant
Disappointments are like weeds in the garden. You can let them grow and take over your life, or you can rout them out and let the flowers sprout.
Wanda E. Brunstetter
Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.
Julian Barnes
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.
Alice Miller
Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.
DMX
I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted, cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.
Swami Vivekananda
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare
As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
Daniel Craig
Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.
Stockwell Day
The truth of the story lies in the details.
Paul Auster
You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
Mary Harris Jones
Forget what they told you. You want the truth, follow the money.
Roxanne Bland
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II
Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251
Frank Herbert
My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.
Alanis Morissette
To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet
Thomas Hardy
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
Peter Kreeft
She wiped the black spillingfrom her eyelashes onto her cheek,and in that moment, I wanted, Ineeded, for magic to exist.I wanted to peel back her lonelyskin and feel her sadness starestraight into the blue inside my eyes.I wanted and I needed it to know,that I, I loved her too, and my godI, I would fight for her.
Christopher Poindexter
Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing.
Joshua Hartzell
When your conscious and subconscious are at symmetry with each other, intuition plays little to no role in your decisions. Everything becomes blurry, because you are finally starting to drift away from the picture that the world wants you to see.
Lionel Suggs
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