Abderite Quotes & Sayings

When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly. — Robertson Davies

I give with reason. — Thomas North

What do I say to a man who knows how I think and still sleeps next to me with the lights off? — Gillian Flynn

Actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death. — Stella Adler

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family. — Dorothy Allison

The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him. — Paulo Coelho

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies. — Jason Statham

The Eucharist is the sacrament of cosmic remembrance: it is indeed a restoration of love as the very life of the world. — Alexander Schmemann

One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true. — Cassandra Clare

He touched her as though she were something precious and cared for. That was where the terrible power lay - not in his strength, not in some dark bespellment. His power existed because he could make her believe things she had cast away. Things that had cast her away.
Things beyond reaching.
If he could make her believe, she would be lost. She would never survive. The fear inside her head overwhelmed her. — Helen Kirkman

'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut. — Mark Doty

AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES, our shadows grow longer. At night, in the dark, we become our shadows. — Tom Robbins

The moon was beginning to rise when they set out, and a good thing, too, Brianna thought. Even with the big, lopsided gold orb sailing up out of a cradle of stars and shedding its borrowed radiance over the sky, the trail beneath their feet was invisible. So were their feet, drowned in the absolute black of the forest at night. — Diana Gabaldon

Emotional healing is almost always a process. It takes time. There is a very important reason for this. Our heavenly Father is not only wanting to free us from the pain of past wounds, he is also desirous of bringing us into maturity, both spiritually and emotionally. That takes time, because we need time to learn to make the right choices. He loves us enough to take the months and years necessary to not only heal our wounds, but also build our character. Without growth of character we will get wounded again. — Floyd McClung

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. — Paul Simon