Boldfaced Portion Quotes & Sayings

Claire coaxed free another loop of cloth. The slow side of cotton against cotton matched the soft tenor or her voice.

'I have lots of talents Mr. Ryland. Listening is only one of them. — Gina Conkle

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters. — Star Jones

That's really easy for you to say, Jack. You've gotten everything you ever wanted. — Belinda G. Buchanan

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. — Bayard Rustin

Jesus Christ never thinks about what we have been! He always thinks about what we are going to be. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums. — Owen Wilson

There was no one else left for me to look for, but the urge to keep looking was there. The desire to be found was stronger than ever. — Trish Marie Dawson

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your life when you hate your best friend on Monday and love them again on Tuesday? But at eight, 10, 12, you don't realise you're going to die. There is always the possibility of escape. There is always somewhere else and far away, a fact I had never really appreciated until I read Gitta Sereny's profoundly unsettling Cries Unheard about child-killer Mary Bell.
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We begin to picture a time when there will no longer be somewhere else and far away. We have jobs, children, partners, debts, responsibilities. And if many of these things enrich our lives immeasurably, those shrinking limits are something we all have to come to terms with.
This, I think, is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. — Mark Haddon

Your ability to describe the mission of your organization, your goals, your objectives, your programs, your staff, and your plans all in one cohesive, well-thought-out document (in other words, your case statement) will impress your donors. It'll also impress the people working with you, as well as others in the fundraising community. And even more important than impressing your donors and partners, your case statement will help them understand why you exist, why you do what you do, and why they want to join you in doing it. — John Mutz

They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak. — Tim O'Brien

Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts or otherwise invade their personal lives, with no oversight or accountability. Law-abiding Americans also deserve to know that when law enforcement can show an impartial judge clear evidence of criminal activity or a threat to national security, swift and decisive action will be taken to protect the public. That is the balance we must achieve. — Ralph Neas

When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know. — Jennifer Harrison