Adoptables Quotes & Sayings

As hoped, his mouth twists and his nose wrinkles. "Hot sick has just surged up my throat." "'Hot sick?'" I laugh. "That's a new one. — Kristen Callihan

I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is. — Prem Rawat

Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and deciding the best course of action in the face of that future are much less likely to do so. And much of what we've seen so far suggests that a large group of diverse individuals will come up with better and more robust forecasts and make more intelligent decisions than even the most skilled "decision maker." — James Surowiecki

Even the harmful and awkward and stupid things?" asked Sunday. "There are reasons for those?"
"Especially those." said Joy. — Alethea Kontis

G - God's
R - Redemption
A - At
C - Christ's
E - Expense — Paul Silway

In marriage, you must have trust and love — Mercy Johnson

Her elf is going to do just that," he said, the red glow of the ever-after sun turning his hair auburn, almost as red as mine. "I did not work this hard at getting her to accept who she is to let you take your spoiled brat of a little-boy temper tantrum out on her. She stays on my side of the lines. — Kim Harrison

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film. — Andrzej Wajda

On the street below, the weather is calm. But up here, high winds threaten to topple the workers. A sudden gust can knock them from their footing with its sheer force or send a fatal vibration through the beams on which they stand. And yet the men joke, laugh, stroll across the foot-wide beams as though they are on solid ground. To the people on the sidewalk, tiny as ants below, the skywalkers appear entirely unafraid. A hundred years ago, their grandfathers and great-grandfathers built the skyscrapers and bridges that surround them. — David Weitzman

If you choose to forget all other things, remember only this and you will never fail: you are awesome, in the most total sense of the word. — Kim Huggens

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles. — John Mason Brown

Because a man can only live with despair for so long before hope resurges. — Robert J. Crane

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. — Mao Tse-tung

There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers. — Ernest Bramah

Phantom
Your heart must be a ghost.
I can feel it mounting; a dark wave -
upon the night of my soul — Segovia Amil