135 Kilograms Quotes & Sayings

All is like, all unlike; all is useful and harmful, eloquent and dumb, reasonable and unreasonable. And what people profess about individual matters is often contradictory. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion. — John Green

How often had men sat around dinner tables and discussed women's lives, their choices, and the reasons why one woman reached across the bed to touch another woman? — Sherman Alexie

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. — Chiang Kai-shek

What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood. — Deborah Davis

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope. — James E. Faust

What is most heartbreaking to me is the young women who don't report [being raped] because they were drinking, and they feel like it was their fault that they were drinking. I mean, that is so common. — Claire McCaskill

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict. — Andrew Bernstein

She had found more than peace of mind. She had discovered the state of her soul set down in ink. — Nancy Horan

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level. — Ben Marcus

You should know that you're exactly the person you think you are.
Elliot turned away as the tear escaped. That's what she was afraid of. — Diana Peterfreund

I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating! — Sarah Weeks

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. — Doris Lessing