Avivando La Quotes & Sayings

If Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Doceticism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels when they spoke of Jesus appearing through locked doors, disappearing again, sometimes being recognized, sometimes not, and finally ascending into heaven — N. T. Wright

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention. — Daniel Kahneman

Life is one long apology — Marilyn L. Rice

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think. — Maurice Sendak

The second anniversary opened an internal crack in Sonia, a fissure through which she released the explosive feeling that had horrified her for two years. The conflagration that had burned so many, that had pushed people into the open air, onto the ledges from which they jumped, some of them on fire, had left its unspeakable images inside my niece ... Sonia didn't want a world in which buildings fell down and wars were fought for no reason. — Siri Hustvedt

Seriously, how many times can a person break before the only things left are shattered fragments too small to piece back together? — Jay McLean

Ames clucked his tongue, "You know, not all of us are so evil minded. You've just met the wrong ones."
He meant guys. "You're all the same." I should know.
"Not all of us," he said too soft but I heard. "But judgment before proven can eat one up with anger. Sometimes you just have to take a chance. Trust someone. — Cyndi Goodgame

It became clear that this man, although supposedly my enemy, was in fact just another human being, an ordinary person like myself. — Dalai Lama XIV

I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it. — Russell Crowe

That's how it is with us. You're solid, I'm liquid. You part the waters, I'm your wake. — Colleen Hoover