Carpetbaggers Reconstruction Quotes & Sayings

When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful. — Sheila Walsh

The will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on doing nothing. — Hannah Arendt

If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle. — M.H. Abrams

A dog, for me, it's not just getting a dog. I couldn't leave him at home. I'm looking for a life partner and I'm not ready. I'm not emotionally mature enough. — Zac Efron

It doesn't cost anything to be a good person, but yet there are toxic people around us that will try to tax our lives. — Ron Baratono

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Oscar Wilde

What happened?" she asked, dropping to the damp ground beside Win. "Has Merripen been burned?"
"Yes, on his back." Win ripped a makeshift bandage from the hem of her own gown. "Beatrix, would you take this, please, and soak it in water?"
Without a word, Beatrix scampered to the trough at the handpump.
Win stroked Merripen's thick black hair as he rested his head on his forearms. His breath hissed unevenly through his teeth.
"Does it hurt, or is it numb?" Amelia asked.
"Hurts like the devil," he choked out.
"That's a good sign. A burn is much more serious if it's numb."
He turned his head to give her a speaking glance. — Lisa Kleypas

I write and believe so
those who read will share my vision. — S. Raven Storm

It wasn't like he was holding me so much as trying to hold onto something. — Augusten Burroughs

I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.
But not anymore. — Alexandra Bracken

He entered a confectioner's shop to rest, once. He was in a state of nervous excitement and perturbation; he noticed nothing and no one; and he felt a craving for solitude, to be alone with his thoughts and his emotions, and to give himself up to them passively. He loathed the idea of trying to answer the questions that would rise up in his heart and mind. "I am not to blame for all this," he thought to himself, half unconsciously. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom. — Margaret Atwood

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect. — Amy Lee

And no, I think i'm better than you because I am better than you. — Stacey Kade

Every scar told a story, but it was the ones we didn't want others to see that told a truth. — Keri Lake