Casemotions Quotes & Sayings

A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me. — Anne Lamott

When a mother dies, a daughter grieves. And then her life moves on. She does, thankfully, feel happiness again. But the missing her, the wanting her, the wishing she were still here - I will not lie to you, although you probably already know. That part never ends. — Hope Edelman

Philosophy makes literature clear, literature makes philosophy real. — Peter Kreeft

I haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting and decorating my house, buying some furniture. — Jennifer Saunders

I couldn't tell anyone how I felt because I knew they wouldn't understand. Oh, poor little Christina, falling for the bad man who treats her like dirt because she didn't know any better. And isn't it a pity that they don't still teach sex-ed in schools? Or, oh, Christina, that filthy slut, if she puts out for a man like that, I imagine she puts out for anyone. You stay away from her. It wasn't like that at all. Maybe it would have been easier if it was, just like ticking a box. Are you the Madonna, or the whore? The victim, or the vixen? The Sabine, or the skank?
But nothing in life is ever that simple. — Nenia Campbell

Emotions are real, just not the reasons behind them. — Carrie Jones

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row. — Joni Mitchell

The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says that by reading a few short verses, we are like someone glimpsing nature through window from across the room. But by taking in more lengthy passages of Scripture, we are like someone who, intrigue, gets right next to the window to take in more of the view that it offers, basking in more of the arc of the whole the whole narrative. — N. T. Wright

Virginia was not quite fourteen when Harry Edgar possessed her. He gave her lessons in algebra. Je m'imagine cela. They spent their honeymoon at Petersburg, Fla. "Monsieur Poe-poe," as that boy in one of Monsieur Humbert Humbert's classes in Paris called the poet-poet. — Vladimir Nabokov

Let us all love each other. Every morning, let us sing a song of peace together. — Debasish Mridha

You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom. — Bob Dylan

Sexiest is definitely Drusilla, though if you ask a girl, she'll probably say Damon Salvatore or Edward Cullen. But . . . He shrugged. — Cassandra Clare

Courage is doing what is needed despite one's fear. Without the fear, it's merely . . . fearlessness." He — Alissa Johnson

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language. — S.I. Hayakawa