35 & Ticking Quotes & Sayings

I thought about him everyday until then. I started having these conversations with him in my head that you have when you meet someone you sense is going to be important in your life. — Deb Caletti

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now. — Charlotte Lennox

The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet. — Lynne McTaggart

Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth; have two. Have a name. Miles means "soldier," but don't let the power of suggestion overwhelm you. Have a twisted form in a society that loathes and fears the mutations that have been its deepest agony. Have a title, wealth, power, and all the hatred and envy they will draw. Have your body ripped apart and re-arranged. Inherit an array of friends and enemies you never made. Have a grandfather from hell. Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely. — Donald L. Hicks

I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation? — Henri Frederic Amiel

She beams at me and it's almost enough to make up for the fact that I'm harder than trigonometry right now. Almost. — Trish Doller

Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either. — Rube Goldberg

You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either — Gene Stallings

Little changes at first, maybe, but as the Bruce Springsteen song tells us, from small things, baby, big things one day come. They might be good changes, ones — Stephen King

The baby's eyes were dark, almost black, and when I nursed her in the middle of the night, she'd stare at me with a stunned, shipwrecked look as if my body were the island she'd washed up on. — Jenny Offill

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child. — Paul Nurse

Wrath to Butch : I always knew you were a royal; just didn't think it went past the pain-in-the-ass part is all. — J.R. Ward