Barbing Quotes & Sayings

Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace. — E.B. White

Most inspirational writers were born as driftwood and will say they have been beaten against every shoreline during their life. We understand storms. We understand drowning. We understand being devalued. We understand being stranded alone on a beach. God made us this way so we would know where every lighthouse can be found and tell others how to find them. We were never meant to stand on the beach with you because every rescue we do rescues ourselves. We always go back to the sea because that is where driftwood belongs
forever searching for answers to our endless questions and sharing what we learned ... (2012, Writer's Conference) — Shannon L. Alder

Maybe his nightmare had been about me. — Marie Lu

Speak," he urged. "What about, sir?" "Whatever you like. I leave both the choice of subject and the manner of treating it entirely to yourself." Accordingly I sat and said nothing. "If he expects me to talk, for the mere sake of talking and showing off, he will find he has addressed himself to the wrong person," I thought. — Charlotte Bronte

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents. — Doris Lessing

Soon-Bok Kim closed her eyes, said rapid prayers in castellano, beat the steering wheel, begged God to save her and her stupid husband, said they would become better Christians. — Eric Jerome Dickey

She'd thought there was no greater connection than destiny decreeing them joined. But there was - the choice they'd made to love each other. — Kresley Cole

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief. — Marguerite Yourcenar

The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters. — Matthew Ashford

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation. — Rodman Philbrick

was stopped on the street by a Dutch policeman, who ordered her to slowly speak the words Scheveningen and schapenscheerder. The Dutch police were trying to weed out Germans posing as Dutch, who most likely would not be able to pronounce those Dutch words. — Kathryn J. Atwood

The little things you forget, kill me. — Pleasefindthis

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity. — Henry Ward Beecher

I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy ... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression. — Chip Conley

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal. — Lincoln Chafee