Damnd Quotes & Sayings

The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary. — James Lee Burke

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress. — Ann Aguirre

When I'm there, Rube's eyes fire into mine. Make sure you get up, they tell me, and I nod, then jump up. The jacket's off. My skin's warm. My wolfish hair sticks up as always, nice and thick. I'm ready now. I'm ready to keep standing up, no matter what, I'm ready to believe that I welcome the pain and that I want it so much that I will look for it. I will seek it out. I'll run to it and throw myself into it. I'll stand in front of it in blind terror and let it beat me down and down till my courage hangs off me in rags. Then it will dismantle me and stand me up naked, beat me some more and my slaughter-blood will fly from my mouth and the pain will drink it, feel it, steal it and conceal it in the pockets of its guts and it will taste me. It will just keep standing me up, and I won't let it know. I won't tell it that I feel it. I won't give it the satisfaction. No, the pain will have to kill me. — Markus Zusak

Will is based on activity, whim on passivity. — Erich Fromm

Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes? — Samuel Park

Earthly Angels do not allow other souls to dim their light; they just keep shining bright as the sun, for this helps other souls to reconnect with their own light and shine brightly too! — Molly Friedenfeld

The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give. — James Cash Penney

In the face of cold power, she is fire. — Pierce Brown

I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

Are you coming back to campus or you sticking around here with the prick? — Holly Hood

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible. — Penn Jillette

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am. — Ann Coulter

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable. — Paramahansa Yogananda