K.A. Tucker Quotes
The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.
An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is only as good as its weakest leader.
I had a maternal instinct once, it lasted 48 hours
They tell you the devil is in the details…what they don’t tell you is that he’s laughing maniacally.
There’s no getting better, Storm. This is it.” There’s no coming back from the dead.
I barrel into his arms, my mouth connecting with his. Seizing him. Feeling him. Loving him.
Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours
I’m clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope.
In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.
I felt so much pride, so much love. You get a handful of days like this in a lifetime. Take in every minute. They’ll be over soon enough, and you never know what tomorrow will bring.
The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.
We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It’s how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that won’t let us move forward.
This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless.
We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.
I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s not so easy, moving forward.
There are more good people than bad people, and overall there’s more that’s good in the world than there is that’s bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it.
For your own security it’s imperative you blend in with the native population.
Life is not just about surviving, it’s about finding fulfillment.
You are that blue-white diamond, so treat yourself like a Tiffany.
Finding your bliss can make survival seem like a joyous journey. And a strange thing happens along the way when you love what you are doing: you become good at it.
Give as you wish to live, it all come's back to you. And that's without exception ...
Because you´re not a one night girl Irish.' Leaning in to place a kiss on my jawline he whispers, 'You're my forever girl.
Because you’re not a one-night girl, Irish.” (...) “You’re my forever girl.
I could lay here and stare at him forever. I don’t want to let go. Ever.
My dad once told me that his biggest challenge after returning from Vietnam had been coming to terms with his own callousness. He’d made a deal with the war and traded his humanity for a ticket home.
The point... is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect to call off the thoughts when turning upon disagreeable objects and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 good personality. From 55 on she needs good cash. I'm saving my money.
When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled.
Whatever your favorite food is, if you eat it every day for a month, you're going to get sick of it.
I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!
I'm so pathetically eager for people to love D.C. It's so sad. It's like I work for the chamber of commerce or something.
People tend to cherish and take care of the things they pay for and therefore own, countries included. The opposite is also true. When was the last time you changed the oil in a rental car?
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.