Approached For A Raid Quotes & Sayings

When young, we're anxious - understandably - to find out if we've got what it takes. Can we succeed? Can we build a viable life for ourselves? But you - in particular you, of this generation - may have noticed a certain cyclical quality to ambition. You do well in high-school, in hopes of getting into a good college, so you can do well in the good college, in the hopes of getting a good job, so you can do well in the good job so you can ...
And this is actually O.K. If we're going to become kinder, that process has to include taking ourselves seriously - as doers, as accomplishers, as dreamers. We have to do that, to be our best selves.
Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that "succeeding" will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended. — George Saunders

I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception. — Zola Jesus

If you couldn't catch up with me before the fame and fortune when you had owed me money and/or took up time with me, why on God's green earth should I take up any more time with you to borrow more money and not see you again until its time to borrow some more. — Cleon T. Day III

Can you fall for someone because you're lazy? — Jodi Picoult

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune. — Barbara Kingsolver

Be careful what you wish for... — Beth Bares

You need to listen to the silence in order to hear the messages from universe..because beyond the silence there's more sounds connecting you with universal powers.. — Gayan Fonseka

After my shower, I found him shuffling cards he bought at the convenience store we stopped at before the hotel. Grinning, I sat across from him.
"You told me that you're good at cards," Judd said, recalling my reaction to passing a casino on the drive.
"I said I liked cards. I never claimed to be good."
"The only people who like cards are gambling addicts and those who are good at it. You're not an addict."
"Do you like cards?" I asked while he dealt.
"Sure."
"Do you like me?" I asked softly, looking over my cards.
Judd never looked up from his hand. "I'm playing cards, ain't I? — Bijou Hunter

IT WOULD BE tempting to read the story of Fordlandia and Belterra as a parable of arrogance, — Greg Grandin

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork. — James Beard

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements. — Daniel Wolpert

Eternity is the sun
mixed
with the sea — Arthur Rimbaud

Stop it.
Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend. — J.R. Ward

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach. — Jane Austen

I'm fine. I told you I was fine. Everything is fine. A person who was really fine probably wouldn't have to say it so many times. — Laurelin Paige