Deatra Holloway Quotes & Sayings

The most important acts, both for the one who accomplishes them and for his fellow creatures, are those that have remote consequences. — Leo Tolstoy

I despaired for a while during the rail journey-how did one deal with such ingrained
cowardice? Then I realized that there is no such thing as courage in the absence of cowardice.
Courage is also a choice: It's what happens when one refuses to give in to fear."
She rested her head against the bedpost and gazed at him. "Your trust gives me courage."
He understood her perfectly. "And your courage gives me faith."
She smiled a little. "Do you trust me?"
"Yes," he answered without any hesitation.
"Then trust me when I say that we will be all right."
He trusted her. And he knew then that they would be all right, the two of them. Together. — Sherry Thomas

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong? — William Golding

I went to collect the few personal belongings which ... I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude. — Colette

Just don't plan on hugs every time I see you."
"The feeling's mutual. — James Dashner

A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness. — Francis Atterbury

We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. People are saying, "I can't fill the hole with money. I can't fill it with alcohol, or drugs, or sex, so what do I need to fill it with?" — Mark Victor Hansen

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people. — John Templeton

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love... — Patrick O'Brian

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance. — Tertullian

Happy in his silence yet eager for his words. — Daphne Du Maurier

When the wings are too heavy, the bird can't fly. — Marty Rubin

No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness
happiness on my own terms. — Anna Bayes

For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is there not here conceit of knowledge, which is a disgraceful sort of ignorance? And this is the point in which, as I think, I am superior to men in general, and in which I might perhaps fancy myself wiser than other men, - that whereas I know but little of the world below, I do not suppose that I know: but I do know that injustice and disobedience to a better, whether God or man, is evil and dishonorable, and I will never fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain evil. — Socrates

I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world. — Jean Genet