Afflicts Means Quotes & Sayings

My self loathing was like a bone I couldn't stop gnawing. — Sarah Hepola

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear. — Anne Lamott

If you feel that everything's too damn okay,
then it is just a sign that something is wrong. — Toba Beta

Are you sure you weren't adopted?"
"Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear. — Jana Deleon

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. — Bertrand Russell

There were certain elements of the human world that where out of their control: war, inflation, American Idol ... all things which could cause major irritation to a vampire's daily life. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us. — Baroness Orczy

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else's life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives, that somehow we hadn't been able to see before. — Katherine Paterson

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way. — David Gergen

For a man of action and few words, the ones he did say were quite lovely. — Melanie Dickerson

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you! — Colleen McCullough

I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I tried to write a coming of age novel, but I wasn't deep enough to get past the third chapter. — Rick Robinson

The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today. — Jean Cocteau

No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour to whip him. The world afflicts him not, because it loves him: for each man is indulgent to his own. God uses not the rod where He means to use the Word. The pillory or scourge is for those malefactors that shall escape execution. — Joseph Hall

The whole idea that you can take a disease like this and exercise your way to health is foolishness. It is insane. — Paul Cheney

I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain. — Matt Groening