Between Sisters Kristin Hannah Quotes & Sayings

But scientific advances have turned the processes of aging and dying into medical experiences, — Atul Gawande

When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and head of the nail were infinitely big, if would be just the same; the point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of the soul, and social degradation all at the same time, is a nail whose point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time — Simone Weil

Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love to do theater, or as far as movies or television goes, if the right thing came along I would definitely entertain it. — Jennifer Nettles

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting. — Jewel

I believe the film paradoxically generates a visceral, almost tactile 'live' experience. — Anonymous

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time. — Saint John Chrysostom

We learn not for life but for the debating-room. — Seneca The Younger

In an ultimate sense I cannot know what I do in this place - yet I do ultimate things. Essentially I cannot know what I do - yet I do essential things. Irreversible, terminal things. I stand in the dark with a pick in my hand, striking at heads! I need - more desperately than my children need me - a way of seeing in the dark. — Peter Shaffer

If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived? — Clyde Bruckman

A person needed savings in order to move, but more than that he needed gumption. — David Sedaris