A. W. F. Edwards Quotes

Almost everybody embraces life.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

I hope I have important things to say.

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

I grew up in a Navy family.

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.

Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.

Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.

His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.

I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just specifically for those follow-up cases.

Either things grow and change or they die.

The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car

She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.

Short on money, long on hope

So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.

Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.

He had never even glimpsed her.

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

I love to swim, and I love being near water.

This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.

...bleak territory of the heart.

The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

Not playing on Sunday has caused problems for other organizations or teams who wanted us to do so, but we never had to think twice about such a decision.

My belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the testimony I have of the Savior and His atonement [is my personal shelter].

Early in my career I determined that I would not bring the problems of my work home with me. For the most part, I have been able to do that.

My testimony helps me to establish priorities in my life.

One of our goals was to serve a mission, which we are now doing. After that, we want to keep our family together eternally, be of service in whatever way possible, and endure to the end!

I hope I've been a good example to the youth of the church.

I know the team, as a whole, has had an impact on the youth of the church, and on the missionary efforts throughout the world.