Commanders Artist Quotes & Sayings

Tell me about the war," he pressed cautiously. She smiled again and began, "Well . . ." The sentence ended there. Her tongue moved but no words emerged. He wanted to say, Tell me because I'd like to tell my grandchildren one day. Tell me because it happened to you, and so I should know. Tell me because it will bring me closer to you, and I want to be close to you. But he was fifteen years old, and he didn't know how to express thoughts like these. He only knew that he wanted to know. He could tell that she would tell him anything but anything, only if he could stand it please don't make her talk about that. And though he grasped how important it was for him to know - even if everyone in the family had acquiesced not to trouble Grandmother about it - he couldn't bring himself to make her. So he said to her: "Forget about the war. Tell me about how you and Grandfather fell in love. — Boris Fishman

Belen shrugs. "It's a perfect plan."
"As easy as falling in love," Mara adds.
"Foolproof," Hector agrees.
I don't deserve such friends. I blink against the sting of threatening tears and say, "All you Joyans are filthy liars. — Rae Carson

What's fiction?" "Fiction is an improvement on life. — Charles Bukowski

I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even my imagination's flight. For me to long to grow into that Height - is this not a miracle? I am mortal. My thoughts, my deeds, my experiences - everything that I have and everything that I am - represent mortality. Yet despite everything that I have and everything that I am, I am longing for Immortality. Is this not a miracle? — Sri Chinmoy

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it. — Seneca The Elder

If you don't succeed the first time - you're about average — Frederick L. Coxen

True Teachers must be Transparent, pointing others to deeper walks in Christ, and not to themselves. — Billy Witt

You just want to see me naked," Alec peeled off his shirt, then
popped the buttons on his jeans and slid them low on his hips.
"I've seen you naked. Or have you forgotten?"
Alec winced when Grier probed the wound. "Oh yeah. What'd
you think, by the way?"
"The room was cold, so I won't hold it against you. — Libby Drew

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. — Adlai E. Stevenson