Awlakis Son Quotes & Sayings

Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don't make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you. — Laurie Nadel

Growing up too fast and I do recall, Wishin' time would stop right in it's tracks. — Kenny Chesney

Wells-Barnett's experience with the ways that lynching victims were criminalized, and her progressive belief in the ability of persons to change for the better, gave her another perspective. — Paula J. Giddings

A concert is always like a feast day to me. — James Taylor

Whoever is in charge of such things had been sparing with his blessings on the moment Benno was born. He had neither looks nor wit nor skill. He was not large or strong, he could not sing; in fact, he had a stammer, which on most occasions left him self-consciously mute. One gift only had been given, a gift as simple as it is rare: the gift of pure goodness. He knew, unerringly, what was right, what was kind, what would make people happy, and he did it without fail. His goodness took no effort; there was no internal scale to be balanced. He hoped for no reward and feared no hell. He was not clever- in his final year of school before the teachers despaired of him, he was asked how he would equitably divide a half-pound loaf of bread among himself and two friends. He said he would go without and his two friends would each have a quarter pound, and neither threats of failure not the switch could persuade him to change his answer. — Laura L. Sullivan

Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara. — Sakyong Mipham

Sometimes the toilet paper does not win. Sometimes a broke woman needs the red wine more. — Shonda Rhimes

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. — Michael J. Fox

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport. — Gabrielle Reece

But the young educated adults of the 90s
who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so
beautifully
got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself. — David Foster Wallace

I took his hand, brought it to my hip. "I've been the only person to give myself an orgasm for the past year." Moving his fingers to the edge of my dress, I whispered, "Can you change that? — Christina Lauren

Then I saw ... you see ... I saw that you can't do anything for anybody. We can't save each other. Or ourselves. — Ursula K. Le Guin