Agonizingly Violet Quotes & Sayings

My brother and sister were much older. They were planned. I was not planned for. I was called the mistake, amongst other things. — Penny Marshall

If hope is a feeling that can defeat fear,
then at that time I walked uphill through a bed of snow, my tracks were of joyful determination. — Angelica Hopes

I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

I see everything I do as an extension of the ministry. It's all about service. — Clementa C. Pinckney

Trying to effect change in others is a lost cause especially if you are unwilling to first change yourself. It's easier to focus on other people's issues or shortcomings rather than look inward. It's counter-productive to try to clean someone else's house, while your house is a disaster. Not to mention, hypocritical. Start with yourself and then worry about others. ~Jason Versey — Jason Versey

It was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder; it was a simple, urgent matter of public pride, a matter of how much I had in common with other people. — Richard Wright

I like Hrithik Roshan and Shahid Kapoor. They are amazing and very hard working when it comes to dance. — Mithun Chakraborty

The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures. — Wendell Berry

We are constantly trying to hold it all together. If you really want to see why you do things, then don't do them and see what happens. — Michael A. Singer

To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she let him know whatever thoughts happened to come to her, and indeed he never took it amiss if she let slip a word that might pain him, because when all was said and done that was the price one paid for sincerity. — Ismail Kadare

Sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Christian is free from all other human beings. He does not have to live over against others, controlled by their actions and responses. Rather, he lives according to Christ's commands. This is Christian freedom. It is a freedom unknown by others. It is not just when others do the things that we like that we act properly toward them; we are free to do good even when they don't because our actions are not dependent on their responses. It is the Lord Christ when we serve! — Jay E. Adams

You're in a combat zone one day. You come home, and then you have to readjust, and it takes a few days. We just sit in the house, hang with the family and then things get better. — Chris Kyle

I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please. — Gabrielle Zevin