Defending Oneself Emotionally Quotes & Sayings

Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't know," [my father] said, after clearing his throat. "But I know that he loves you." ... Twenty years later, I'm convinced it is the most important thing my father ever told me ... I used to think that the measure of true faith is certainty. Doubt, ambiguity, nuance, uncertainty - these represented a lack of conviction, a dangerous weakness in the armor of the Christian soldier who should "always be ready with an answer." ... Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. The former has the potential to destroy faith; the latter has the power to enrich and refine it. — Rachel Held Evans

Until the sky rolls back like a scroll, I have failed nothing." --Satan — James Garcia Jr.

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. — James Thurber

He left as silently as he'd come. Pierre LaManche favored crepe-soled shoes, kept his pockets empty so nothing jangled or swished. Like a croc in a river he arrived and departed unannounced by auditory cues. Some of the staff found it unnerving. — Kathy Reichs

If I was traded to the Giants, I'd quit baseball — Rocky Colavito

I think that people have some sort of vision that everybody is moving towards perfection, and that there is some sort of set steps or something like that that you can move through to get to that place, and that that's sort of the project of being alive. — Ayana Mathis

To make matters worse, seemingly every book I read by Christians on sex and marriage sounded unfair. Nearly every one said the husband had to work very hard to understand his wife, to relate to her. — Mark Driscoll

When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live. — William O. Douglas

I've been called funny. I assume my wife thinks I'm funny. But generally, if you bumped into me and said hello, I would say hello back, politely. And that would be it. — Robert Webb

I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad. — Anna Nicole Smith

Performance metrics are numbers in context, results are related to your strategic goals. — Pearl Zhu