Chairperson Toolkit Quotes & Sayings

What I wanted was for him to want me, for him to touch me. He held my hand sometimes. Once I fell asleep next to him on the sofa, my cheek resting against his white T-shirt, and he put his arm around me. I wanted more than that--I wanted for him to kiss me. I wanted his want. — Sarai Walker

I want them [female fans] to not be afraid to live life, to not be afraid to make bad decisions because there are a lot of lessons and blessings in those decisions. Sometimes, if you don't fall into the pit, you won't reach out to God. — Karrine Steffans

What is life, but one long risk? — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich. — Danny Gregory

Trust in time rather than timing, — Burton Malkiel

Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed. — Wilder Penfield

Do you think I'm weird because I'm wired, or wired because I'm wierd? — Jack Gantos

I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not. — Will Ferrell

You may not realize it but you're seeking the silence in your soul, a plea where you go to find the best of yourself. Learning a simple and beautiful skill, like choosing a teapot, that's seeking that silence, creating rituals where that silence may be found and nurtured. As long as you have that place, you'll never lose yourself, who you are, what you want. But you have to remember to keep bringing flowers into your meadow, always one at a time, to appreciate each blossom, to honor its contribution to your character. It helps make you into the person you were meant to be. — Joey W. Hill

Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn't come with agony. — Maggie Stiefvater

Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred. — Henry De Montherlant

I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear.
-Bryce — Wendelin Van Draanen