Day Quotes
Everyone knows what it's like to feel like the underdog. Everyone wants to be accepted. Ultimately, everybody wants to be loved.
I'm not giving you any options here. We're doing this, Eva. Enjoy your last remaining hours as a single woman.
The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of statues; where there is room for workmanship there is room for it.
It's going to be a lot of work, Gideon," Eva warned him. "I'm not afraid of work." He was touching me restlessly as if it were as necessary to him as breathing. "I'm only afraid of losing you.
The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.
TV and comics and movies are what you think about when you think about geek, but people can be a geek about anything.
I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
Every goal first started as something in our mind. You have it all within you!
But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men
Because when you’re laughing, there is no other emotion in that moment except for joy.
You're very short, aren't you?" She smirked at Petunia. "And you've got a nose like a stoat," Petunia replied. "But at least I can always have my gowns altered.
There were thousands of women in New York alone who could replace me in his life, but there was only one Gideon Cross.
Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.
Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.
To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all.
Ideas that change business models and that can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.
Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.
If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.
The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.
If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
No need, no, need. Life is already too short to find it.
My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.
I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.
Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.
And then what did you do, Lord Oliver?" Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.
Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.
What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?
Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?