Atonementsports Quotes & Sayings

Everyone yearns for heaven, and nothing binds you to the hope of eternal life like that kind of defeat on earth. — Jacquelyn Mitchard

The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. — Evangeline Lilly

Elizabeth's tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knew
it would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress. — Mary Street

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods — Montesquieu

When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I would start stapling together little booklets for myself. — Marie Lu

Teaching is a great complement to writing. It's very social and gets you out of your own head. It's also very optimistic. It renews itself every year - it's a renewable resource. — Eleanor Catton

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away. — Henry Ward Beecher

'Never give in' was my mindset. — Arlen Specter