Cafe Con Leche Quotes & Sayings

Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack? — Stephen King

And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks.
Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first.
- from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin — Julia Quinn

The most positive men are the most credulous. — Alexander Pope

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives. — Laurell K. Hamilton

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening. — Ray Dalio

I wondered what this odd, well-spoken man was doing on Cairnholm, with his pleated slacks and half-baked poems, looking more like a bank manager than someone who lived on a windswept island with one phone and no paved roads. — Ransom Riggs

most dangerous thing in the world is to try and leap a chasm in two jumps,'" Paul quoted with dignified seriousness. — Glenn Michaels

My mother always told me if I really didn't wan to do something, if I was really tired, but if I had helped someone and I really went out of my way for them but I asked nothing for it, that I should donate my energy to the souls in purgatory-meaning that to give my goodness to those who are trapped. This is purgatory/limbo. This is a very Catholic thing that very few people really understand. — Peter Steele

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself. — Henry David Thoreau

By thinking of the cloud, I thirsted for the raindrop. — Matt Haig

The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are — Sunday Adelaja

It seldom happens that a man, though extolled as a saint, is really without blemish; or that another, though reviled as a devil, is really without humanity. — Fanny Burney

A lot of times I play the villain or the comic relief, and I get to kind of play the comic relief to a degree, which is fun, but I also get to say, "You are created in the image in God. You are a perfect child of God. And this part of you is the heart of who you are. You're not alone, and you're okay just the way you are." — Missi Pyle

Natalya: It was our favorite sister of NASA who guilt me into putting my tits on line to rescuing you helpless ornaments. — Brian K. Vaughan

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption. — Martha N. Beck