Brindles Bookstore Quotes & Sayings

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: It would kill him if he relaxed. — Robert A. Caro

I sometimes shock the people around me with how I see things. I come up with very unique solutions to things. As I can picture things in my mind and move them around to design and understand them. — Tina J. Richardson

Friends call me Hitch. Maybe it can be turned into a 900-phone number. People would pay to talk to me. — Christopher Hitchens

So you raise up a few generations of young girls, telling them that they should step to the back of the bus, ingrain that in their psyche, preach it to them from the pulpit, hold up as ideal examples women doing precisely that, and in a few years, you can step back; you need say no more. Your work is done, because you have carefully created a herd of women who know and even begrudgingly accept that their place is secondary, just outside the limelight, clapping for and cheering on the important people who were never taught to put others first. — Susan Campbell

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church. — Mark Batterson

Money feels funny in my hands. If I give you this slice of paper, you let me on the bus? It's ridiculous. — Cameron Jace

I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives. — C.D. Payne

My dreams were always the same I could see myself laughing . I was standing somewhere in a forest a raindrop rolled down a branch and fell on my nose . My hair was a sparkling red color and I was wearing a white flowing ball gown made from silk. I could feel him the one I loved staring at me intensely . His eyes as gold as the sun . I could hear him saying my love Fleur .. you are everything to me. His fingertips lightly shivering as he touched my face beckoning for me to come closer. I don't know what I would do if I lost you . "Are you sure you want to be with me?" My body protested as I fought for him to stay but he never did. As soon as I woke up his presence was gone. — Isabella Kruger

And at Dack's party- it was like this. Like you had all the time in the world, and you wanted us to have it together. I loved that. It was like- well, it was like you'd climbed up that tree and found me there at the top. And we had that together. — David Levithan

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is. — Eckhart Tolle

I may be a creature of the night," he wiggled the fingers of his free hand in the air in mock spookiness, "but I happen to enjoy running water and electricity." I snapped my fingers in an aw shucks gesture and said mournfully, "You've shattered all of my illusions. — Sara C. Roethle

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don't know how a person could ever describe that scent. — Barbara Kingsolver

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties. — George Saunders