Briannah Apocalypse Quotes & Sayings

You need to get far enough away from abusive people to be able to fence your property against further invasion. And then you need to own the treasures you find in your soul. — Henry Cloud

Astrid found the hem of his T-shirt and pulled it up over his head. She unbuckled his belt and shoved his jeans to the deck. She pushed him, gently but insistently, onto the bed. Then she undressed herself and stood in the faint light, looking down at him as he gazed up at her.
"You're giving me a reason to live," he said, half joking.
"I'm just recapturing the mood," she said, trying to make it sound light and sexy.
"You captured me a long time ago."
She climbed atop him. "We walk out of this together, Sam. Whatever it takes. You and me."
"You and me," he said.
She would not yet let him have her. "Whatever it takes," she insisted. "Say it."
"You and me," he said at last. "Whatever it takes."
"Swear it. — Michael Grant

Instead of pondering the question "Can we have it all?," we should be asking the more practical question "Can we do it all?" And again, the answer is no. — Sheryl Sandberg

In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master. — Vasily Smyslov

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot

When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes. — Charles Caleb Colton

I am the centre of everything surrounded by the great nothing. — Fernando Pessoa

You have to take a broader view and realize this is an industry like any other - telecoms, Railroads; they went through consolidation. Why shouldn't the computer industry be any different? This shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody but it seemed to be, and a lot of people thought I was nuts when I said these things. And that's why they are alone as a consolidator. — Larry Ellison

Oh, sorry. I'm not ... uh ... interrupting something that will make me uncomfortable, am I? — G.A. Aiken

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is 'overruled' already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business. — William James

Failure is not the final fall. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Another chapter closes before it has the chance to begin — Faith Sullivan

It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle. — George Herbert

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. — George Eliot