Chance Karen Kingsbury Quotes & Sayings

Only words were capable of beheading a zombie," she thought, "I would presently find myself in the company of the world's two greatest warriors. — Seth Grahame-Smith

There is no amount of sin a loving heart cannot forgive. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I FIRST STARTED READING about the Lusitania on a whim, following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. — Erik Larson

Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it. — Jim Atkinson

Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat. — Matthew Arnold

Miracles still happen today ... A healed marriage. A healthy family. A job you love. Every one of us has been a witness to a whole host of miracles ... let Him have a chance to work a miracle in your life once again. — Karen Kingsbury

There's also a way that you have of being precise but also allusive, that works well for me - it's something about the open-hearted way you frame your queries. Instead of feeling daunted or discouraged, I feel excited to give whatever it is a try. This takes a lot of editorial wisdom and confidence - to know just how to get the writer to take that extra chance. — George Saunders

Maybe I'll open a bookstore," he smiled. "New and used books
so everyone has a chance to see the world through the pages of a story. — Karen Kingsbury

Faith gives you the courage, calmness and confidence to reveal the authentic you. — Lisa A. Mininni

Total war uses every conceivable means toward the end of national self-preservation. Everything is right and permitted that serves the cause of one's own people. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Relationships take work. Hours and days and years of getting close to that person. That's real love, real intimacy. If your mind to believe that the work isn't important, you'll not only be going against every plan God has for your life ... you'll lose out on a chance to experience the greatest gift He's given us. The gift of true love. — Karen Kingsbury

And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers. — David Milch

I tell of hearts and souls and dances ...
Butterflies and second chances;
Desperate ones and dreamers bound,
Seeking life from barren ground,
Who suffer on in earthly fate
The bitter pain of agony hate,
Might but they stop and here forgive
Would break the bonds to breathe and live
And find that God in goodness brings
A chance for change, the hope of wings
To rest in Him, and self to die
And so become a butterfly. — Karen Kingsbury

The thing with life is you get one chance. — Karen Kingsbury

Just because yet unable to comprehend the real form of the edge, doesn't mean that this universe is infinite. — Toba Beta

The key to selfless giving is that you feel good when you do it and you feel good afterwards. — Frederick Lenz

It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious. — Oliver Heaviside

Crying and scratching. They are both supposed to offer relief, but they don't. My muscles feel bruised and my bones hurt where they get near my skin. I am happiest when I'm typing. And then I push the typewriter off my lap and curl my body around it like a sea horse and fall asleep like Esther, konwing that when I wake up, things will be more or lest exactly the same. — Arlaina Tibensky

But I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take ti too seriously. — Anne Frank

Don't live in a world of 'I never should have'. Regret is a terrible burden to carry through life. It stoops your shoulders and keeps you looking down at the ground rather than up at the stars. — Mary Alice Kruesi

You have one chance to write the story of your life. Make it a bestseller. — Karen Kingsbury