Be That One! Quotes

True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.

It's not your schedule that keeps you from praying, it's your failure to realize the importance of prayer.

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet

If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.

I box in yellow Gox box socks.

The triumph of hope over experience.

The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.

When you yield yourself in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.

I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.

When you don’t understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own.

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.

But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?