Arruma O Quotes & Sayings

I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends. We had no idea how to begin this project - neither of us had ever collaborated with another writer - and I'm pretty sure that we began by giving our two friends a sock, just to see what they'd do with it. And it went from there. — Kate DiCamillo

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves. — Oprah Winfrey

How instant it was, desire. It was like a bomb exploding, fragmenting and igniting all her nerve endings. — Paullina Simons

Common grace curbs the destructive power of sin, maintains in a measure the moral order of the universe, thus making an orderly life possible, distributes in varying degrees gifts and talents among men, promotes the development of science and art, and showers untold blessings upon the children of men. — Louis Berkhof

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary. — Marilyn Monroe

I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming. — Michael Phelps

Whatever beauty she thought she might have possessed she realized had only been through her husband's assessment of her — Molly Ringwald

The sticky buds of the weeping cherry — Erica Jong

In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and love of elders, then they would destroy the culture. If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth. — Michael Meade

Whoever said there are many girls in the world lied.There is only one — Retshepile Kenneth Mongali

Perhaps I have become so accustomed to the burden of secrets that I do not notice their weight until I am free of it. — Sabaa Tahir

I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself! — Karen Salmansohn

Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus? Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe. He can take his'n and beat your'n, then he can take your'n and beat his'n. — Bum Phillips

The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do. — David Plotz

In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the Old Testament. It is only when we discard the idea of a deity, the idea of cruelty or goodness in nature, that we are able ever to bear with patience the ills of life. I feel that I am neither a favorite nor a victim. Nature neither loves nor hates me. — Robert Green Ingersoll