Aquestalk Quotes & Sayings

The sky was full - of blue and sun. The ocean reflected it and was flat and glossy like a fancy ballroom floor. To Martha, this was the most beautiful sight, a miracle. The ocean made her feel insignificant and slightly afraid, but in an exhilarating way. Her inclination was not to walk or dance across the water's surface. Nor to swim through it. She wanted to *be* the ocean — Kevin Henkes

Whatever the mind is set upon, or whatever it keeps most in view, that it is bringing to it, and the continual thought or imagining must at last take form and shape in the world of seen and tangible things. — Prentice Mulford

I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid? — John Piper

If the coach thinks the client needs the coach's help and "heroically" swoops in to save the day, the coach will prevent the client from growing, changing, and saving his own day. — Chad Hall

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same. — ASAP Ferg

You like the party?" "Is it in honor of anything?" "My cat's birthday." "Oh." She glanced around. "Where's your cat?" "I dont know. He ran away." -Magnus & Clary, pg.221- — Cassandra Clare

What the hell do you want from me?"
"What are you trying to do to me?"
"Stop! Just stop!" he spits.
"Why? What else needs to be said? I think you've told me enough lies for a lifetime."
"No more lies," he says angrily. "I don't even want to talk to you anymore. I just want to hear you tell me that you don't feel anything for me. That you want me to leave you alone and never come back. Then I'll go. If that's what you really want, I'll go."
"Don't. Please don't say it."
"Why?"
"Because I don't want you to. I need you to come back to me. Not to help me. Or to help my father. I'm done with that. I don't want your help. It all boils down to you. I just want you."
"I just want you."
"Okay. — M. Leighton

There is a presumption in favor of every existing institution. Many of these (we will suppose the majority) may be susceptible of alteration for the better; but still the "Burden of proof" lies with him who proposes an alteration; simply, on the ground that since a change is not a good in itself, he who demands a change should show cause for it. No one is called on . . . to defend an existing institution, till some argument is adduced against it; and that argument ought in fairness to prove, not merely an actual inconvenience, but the possibility of a change for the better. — David Potter

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard. — Robert Jordan

If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You wouldn't know him if I told you the name. HIPPIAS: But I know right now he's an ignoramus. — Plato

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same. — Mohammed Omar

Take time to love and be loved, for it is the greatest gift of life. — Pravin Agarwal