Arsdale Quotes & Sayings

Every day she felt like a monster walking among the innocent, felt as if she were trapped on the other side of a locked door — Peternelle Van Arsdale

A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt. — David Novak

After all, only the living needed food. — Peternelle Van Arsdale

Perhaps this was one of the things that had made her so different all along---that she saw the truth of things. That beauty could sometimes be ugly, and that you didn't always find good and evil where you expected to---or where you'd been told to find them. — Peternelle Van Arsdale

There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing. — Henry Paulson

I never had a true childhood. — Bethenny Frankel

I'm a firm believer in quiet confidence. By that I mean knowing inwardly that you are good, and not exhibiting a boastful attitude outwardly. If an athlete doesn't believe in himself, no one else will. — Dick Van Arsdale

She'd never met an adult who claimed to know so little about so much. — Peternelle Van Arsdale

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves. — Sarah Van Arsdale

It looked evil but It seemed good. — Peternelle Van Arsdale

I looked for Gary in all of the Gary places, but I was too early. These places were all haunted by the future of Gary. — Sam Lipsyte

I thank God there is a height in that Book [Bible] I do not know anything about, a depth I have never been able to fathom, and it makes the Book all the more fascinating. — D.L. Moody

You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him. — Michael Eric Dyson

But the fear was too much to be held now. It oozed and rolled over the Gate, it coated the land like mist. — Peternelle Van Arsdale

The Beast is an animal You'd better lock the Gate Or when it's dark, It comes for you Then it will be too late The — Peternelle Van Arsdale

A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought ... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination. He firmly believed in the significance of reviving the Arab spirit and protecting the freedom of thought and the freedom of human conscience ... — Mikhail Naimy

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together. — Robert Reich

There was just something about dead that was different from alive. — Peternelle Van Arsdale

The longer you're gone, the less I'll need food. I'll grow into this tree right here." He pressed his head back into it. "And I'll become tree, and tree will become me. When you come back you'll see just the outline of my face and body in the bark. And then you can live here at the foot of this tree, and sleep under my branches." He reached out and grasped her by her folded arms, drawing her toward him. "And when you dream, we'll be together." And he kissed her. Oddly, — Peternelle Van Arsdale