Correlate Def Quotes & Sayings

She fell in love with freedom. In the Sommers' home she had lived shut up within four walls, in a stagnant atmosphere where time moved in circles and where she could barely glimpse the horizon through distorted windowpanes. She had grown up clad in the impenetrable armor of good manners and conventions, trained from girlhood to please and serve, bound by corset, routines, social norms, and fear. Fear had been her companion: fear of God and his unpredictable justice, of authority, of her adoptive parents, of illness and evil tongues, of anything unknown or different; fear of leaving the protection of her home and facing the dangers outside; fear of her own fragility as a woman, of dishonor and truth. Hers had been a sugar-coated reality built on the unspoken, on courteous silences, well-guarded secrets, order, and discipline. She had aspired to virtue but now she questioned the meaning of the word. — Isabel Allende

They had grown so fast that it was as if they had never been born. — Faridoun Farrokh

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. — Christopher Columbus

Lord, make me childlike. Deliver me from the urge to compete with another for place or prestige or position. I would be simple and artless as a little child. Deliver me from pose and pretense. Forgive me for thinking of myself. Help me to forget myself and find my true peace in beholding Thee. That Thou mayest answer this prayer I humble myself before Thee. Lay upon me Thy easy yoke of self-forgetfulness that through it I may find rest. Amen. — A.W. Tozer

Minds need the unusual, because the unusual has the power to shake the mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward. — Francis Parkman

But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book. — John M. Keller

This is my breakfast. Just because you fancy having sex with it, doesn't mean I have to automatically give it up on your say so. You want fruit sex so badly, like I said, go and get your own. — Harlem Dae

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family ... — Frances Wright