Ballottable Quotes & Sayings

When one day fate visits us again, Jessa comes running into Hannah's house to tell us the news that they've caught the serial killer. Her tone is hushed and I try hard not to look at Jude, who is working on the skirting boards. But I can feel the humour in his gaze as it falls on me and I know that I will never live down the fact that I suspected him.
When I ask her, "Who?" slightly curious, she's already out the door looking for Hannah and Tate. "No one important!" she shouts from the other room. "Just some postman in Yass." I look at Jude's face and I see it whiten and we vow never ever to tell the others. — Melina Marchetta

Stop," he murmured, or at least that's what he meant to say. It came out sounding more like "Yes," which probably wasn't the same thing at all. — Tawna Fenske

Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront. — John Negroponte

There's different girls in my life that play different roles and I see at different times, but collectively they kind of make up the roster of happiness for me. — Drake

I believe a lot in the subject of the power our own bodies have as marginalized beings to be able to change the sense of things. — Bocafloja

When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue. — Josh James

Jung said that to be in a situation where there is no way out or to be in a conflict where there is no solution is the classical beginning of the process of individuation. It is meant to be a situation without solution; the unconscious wants the hopeless conflict in order to put ego consciousness up against the wall, so that the man has to realize that whatever he does is wrong, whichever way he decides will be wrong. This is meant to knock out the superiority of the ego, which always acts from the illusion that it has the responsibility of decision ... If he is ethical enough to suffer to the core of his personality, then generally, because of the insolubility of the conscious situation, the Self manifests. In religious language you could say that the situation without issue is meant to force the man to rely on an act of God. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

There's got to be something greater than us. — Ajay Naidu

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry. — Robert Bringhurst

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you. — Billy Tauzin

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman. — Albert Camus

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open. — Herbie Hancock

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. — Stephen R. Covey

Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves. — Janet Jackson

She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said:
"You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down
by the wrath of God! I do not!"
The judge stroked his chin. He murmured in a slightly ironic voice:
"My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work
of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often
fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts. — Agatha Christie