Coutent Quotes & Sayings

Control or block?" Piper asked. — Sean Platt

I should never do anything pre-coffee.

'It was only a teeny fire,' I told my uncle over the phone. — Cindy Brown

I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself. — C.S. Lewis

I'm instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that's when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism. Even though I may come off like a stark raving asshat, being funny is the most important tool I have to stay sane. The ability to say what I think is the key to allowing me to feel in control. — Jen Lancaster

I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair. — Leverett Saltonstall

If Shirley were not an indolent, a reckless, an ignorant being, she would take a pen at such moments, or at least while the recollection of such moments was yet fresh on her spirit. She would seize, she would fix the apparition, tell the vision revealed. Had she a little more of the organ of acquisitiveness in her head, a little more of the love of property in her nature, she would take a good-sized sheet of paper and write plainly out, in her own queer but clear and legible hand, the story that has been narrated, the song that has been sung to her, and thus possess what she was enabled to create. But indolent she is, reckless she is, and most ignorant; for she does not know her dreams are rare, her feelings peculiar. She does not know, has never known, and will die without knowing, the full value of that spring whose bright fresh bubbling in her heart keeps it green. — Charlotte Bronte

I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all. — Andre Dubus III

Change the way you see the World and the World will see the change in you. — Andrew

God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow. — Billy Graham

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian. — George F. Kennan

Keep your ego from interfering with you search for the truth. — Vincent Ruggiero

Roses are red, violets are blue, if I get you in bed, it would be really cool. — Lauren Oliver

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that. — Deb Caletti