Ciotti Peterson Quotes & Sayings

The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying ... anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop. — Bob Herbert

This is right, Kai. We love each other."
He closed his eyes. "I'd do anything for you."
"Just love me," I whispered — Wendy Higgins

The sacredness of existence is spiritual. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Total commitment is about being wise and smart, not necessarily being noble or virtuous. It's not so much about self-denial but about logic and common sense. It's not so much about what you lose; it's about what you gain. — Chip Ingram

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd

Heartfelt, inspired songwritingwith a delivery both biting and assured. — Paul Zollo

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. — Robert Southey

If you're gonna lob something, lob love. — Craig Benzine

The constant steaming in of thoughts of others must suppress and confine our own and indeed in the long run paralyze the power of thought ... The inclination of most scholars is a kind of fuga vacui ( latin for vacuum suction )from the poverty of their own mind , which forcibly draws in the thoughts of others ... It is dangerous to read about a subject before we have thought about it ourselves ... When we read, another person thinks for us; merely repeat his mental process. So it comes about that if anybody spends almost the whole day in reading, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking. Experience of the world may be looked upon as a kind of text, to which reflection and knowledge form the commentary. Where there is a great deal of reflection and intellectual knowledge and very little experience , the result is like those books which have on each page two lines of text to forty lines of commentary — Will Durant

I am Tina Yothers and I'll never be anyone different. — Tina Yothers

In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet. — Siegfried Sassoon

Is your leg asleep again?" Troy said. "I'm worried about your circulation."

"It's fine," Elena said, stamping her foot.

She'd only been sitting for two hours, but she was so bored she could hardly stand it. She could literally hardly stand; even her blood vessels were bored. — Rainbow Rowell

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth." — Rabindranath Tagore

God didn't call you to be a failure. He called you to be a success — Sunday Adelaja