Aivilik Quotes & Sayings

Sexual debut. Sometimes it seemed to Deenie that high school was like a long game of And Then There Were None. Every Monday, another girl's debut. — Megan Abbott

When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories
who are mute, who can't make themselves heard, who fade into the woodwork, who only think of the perfect answer after the fact, after they're back at home, who can never think of a story that anyone else will find interesting
is there not more depth and more meaning in them? You can see every letter of every untold story swimming on their faces, and all the signs of silence, dejection, and even defeat. You can even imagine your own face in those faces, can't you? — Orhan Pamuk

Are you afraid to die?
'Cause it scares the hell outta me,
And the end is all I can see,
And it scares the hell outta me,
That the end is all I can see. — Matthew Bellamy

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home. — Garth Brooks

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth. — Vernon Howard

Faith asks no signal from the skies, To show that prayers accepted rise, Our Priest is in His holy place, And answers from the throne of grace. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know. — Stanislav Grof

No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all things properly." — Edmund Snow Carpenter

Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't feel motivated; it's that you imagine you need to feel motivated. If you can regard your thoughts and emotions about whatever you're procrastinating on as passing weather, you'll realise that your reluctance about working isn't something that needs to be eradicated or transformed into positivity. You can coexist with it. You can note the procrastinatory feelings and act anyway. — Oliver Burkeman

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. — Thomas Fuller

Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable. — Adam Grant

Michael straightened. "I still married her, and I'd marry her again if I had it to do over." A simple statement, calmly and quietly delivered, but his eyes were burning with wrath. — Francine Rivers

We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net. — Steve King

Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ! — John Donne

Is it just another pore expanding? God, I already have pores the size of pudding cups, that's the last thing I need, another pore ... to fill in with spackle. — Laurie Notaro