W. E. Norris Quotes
Innumerable victories are silently celebrated each day by those who maintain their courage.
In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.
Man is adept at navigating the globe and beyond - yet doubt finding his own destiny
At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our heart to, then we will know what it is we believe.
Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.
One thing is undeniably clear. We have all had bad experiences, we have all had tragedies in our lives which help to shape who we are.
There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.
Stains tell a story, ” Zac said, waving his arms as he spoke. “My car is full of random stains.
For there is nothing like travel to heal a broken heart.
Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.
Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.
When you come to a place where you have to left or right, ' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.
Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.
So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.
Conviction is having the mindset to never doubt your self-understanding
Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?
Embrace the change you desperately need. Tear down your walls and show gratitude for little things.
He who cannot swim should neither chase the dolphins nor play with sharks. For him disaster awaits like sunrise.
The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.
The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.
I arise to face my failures every morning, but I never fail to face them.
More than ever, I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity to cope with change.
Because his killing is not a passion of the moment but a compelling urge that has been growing within him sometimes for years, he has completely amalgamated this practice into his lifestyle.
It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired.
Chuck Norris’s tears cure cancer. Too bad he’s never cried.
Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.
One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.
The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.
Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.
That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.
The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable.
A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship.
The future begins when we tear down the walls that keep us in the past. We must be thankful for those who walked through the pain and helped us to see the way out.