Adm Stockdale Quotes & Sayings

When a presidential candidate is publicly requesting help from the Russians, you know that there is something seriously going wrong in the USA. — Steven Magee

People who score zero are not only those who do not participate in the game, but also those who play very well but have no goal in focus! — Israelmore Ayivor

Kids can't look up to girls who are trying to be growner than they are. — Teyana Taylor

Rob's breath were pushing over my ear, his chest puffing up underneath me. His heart were beating so close to my own that it calmed me for sheer distraction. — A.C. Gaughen

Well, thought Winnie, crossing her arms on the windowsill, she was different. Things had happened to her that were hers alone, and had nothing to do with them. It was the first time. And no amount of telling about it could help them understand or share what she felt. It was satisfying and lonely, both at once. — Natalie Babbitt

You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it. — Marianne Williamson

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? — Paul Cezanne

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced. — Sting

The spiritual combat in which we kill our passions to put on the new man is the most difficult struggle of all. We must never weary of this combat, but fight the holy fight fervently and perseveringly. — Nilus Of Sinai

If Glendower had not saved Gansey's life, he did not know who to thank, or who to be, or how to live. — Maggie Stiefvater

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood. — Seth MacFarlane

Tell me, the poet says, the lie I need to feel safe, and tell me in your own voice, so I believe you. One more tale to stay alive. — Louise Gluck

I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable personal reserve of it to draw on. — Barbara Ehrenreich

I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. "I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me." "Oh, Mom," was all I could say as I stroked her hand. I was too young to say anything else. — Cheryl Strayed