Consecratory Quotes & Sayings

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. — Thomas Merton

It was like skimming through a novel without fully engaging with the story until a well-turned phrase or powerful bit of imagery snagged her attention, hinting at depths previously unnoticed. — Karen Witemeyer

No matter how much time we spent together, parts of my world would always be as alien to him as parts of his were to me. That was oddly comforting, and gave me the strength I needed to do what had to be done. "You? — Seanan McGuire

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked. — Enid Blyton

Nothing endures for so long as fear. Everywhere in nature one sees evidence of innate releasing mechanisms literally millions of years old, which have lain dormant through thousands of generations but retained their power undiminished. The field rat's inherited image of the hawk's silhouette is the classic example - even a paper silhouette drawn across a cage sends it rushing frantically for cover. And how else can you explain the universal but completely groundless loathing of the spider, only one species of which has ever been known to sting? Or hatred of snakes and reptiles? Simply because we all carry within us a submerged memory of the time when the giant spiders were lethal, and when the reptiles were the planet's dominant life form. — J.G. Ballard

Six years is plenty long enough to soothe the tearing anguish of...death, but maybe no amount of time is enough to soothe something that is no longer there. Something like an emptiness that can never be filled because it's only a bit of space carved out of air. — Bette Greene

Remember to have a little faith. When you die, I believe, God isn't going to ask you what you published. God's going to ask you what you wrote. — T.M. McNally

I have no one to talk with, Father," she told him. "I pray, but the gods do not answer. — George R R Martin

You need boundaries ... even in our material creations, boundaries mark the most beautiful of places, between the ocean and the shore, between the mountains and the plains, where the canyon meets the river. — Wm. Paul Young

If wishes were horses, what the heck would I need wishes for? — Elisabeth Wheatley

Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon? — Huineng

The very nature of paradise is that it will be lost. — Melissa Coleman

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market. — Jeffrey R. Immelt

Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least a subscription to Reader's Digest. — Darynda Jones