Birthday Tarpaulin Quotes & Sayings

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. — David Hare

Who are you? What's your name?"
"Mi Mi."
"Do you hear that thumping noise?"
"No."
"It must be here somewhere." Tin Win knelt down. Now it was nearly next to his ear. "I hear it more and more distinctly. A soft pulsing. You really don't hear it?"
"No."
"Close your eyes."
Mi Mi closed her eyes. "Nothing," she said, and laughed. Tin Win leaned over and felt her breath on his face. "I think it's coming from you." He crept closer to her and held his head just in front of her chest.
There it was. Her heartbeat. — Jan-Philipp Sendker

Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell's wall. To write like that. — Anna Kamienska

There's nothing unmanly about surrender. It takes a brave man to give in. — Dev Bentham

No matter how invisible
I feel, I will always be wrapped
in the memory
of life as a captive.
- Quebrado — Margarita Engle

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone. — Robin Williams

Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right. — Laura Schlessinger

Nothing is more poisonous than the spirit of entitlement that permeates our culture and sometimes, sadly, our churches. — Randy Alcorn

Mine, he declared.
Never, she returned.
His mouth moved to her ear and he murmured, We'll see. — Kristen Ashley

Don't say you're easy on me. You're about as easy as a nuclear war. — Duran Duran