Delporte Peintre Quotes & Sayings

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world. — C.S. Lewis

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires. — Ann Marie Aguilar

Dortmunder and the Major strolled away down the long corridor overlooking customs, with the duty-free shops on one side of the corridor and on the other side the railing where people can stand and look down at their returning relatives and visiting foreign friends being degraded. — Donald E. Westlake

I want women to know God can use everything the enemy meant for evil in their lives for good. He can take their stories of shame and redeem them-- first for their own freedom and then to help others.
I want women to know that they are not less than, weaker, second, or not enough. They are created in God's image-- greatly valued, loved, chose, wanted and adored by the Creator of the universe. — Christine Caine

In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services. — Nancy Etcoff

He could silence me, but he had no power over my mind. — Alexandra Bracken

Now I don't usually call people 'white'. Because pale is the word, isn't it? But this particular man, his hand is white. Not pale, but white. — Ritika Chhabra

Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment. — Greg Hunt

He didn't want to be Tristan's friend; he wanted to be Tristan's everything. — Annabeth Albert

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things. — Karen Russell

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever. — Jonathan Swift

We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one ... is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. — Rollo May

Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped. — Cathleen Schine

Eriko raised me that way," he said, laughing. "If I didn't open the door for her, she'd get mad and refuse to get in the car."
"Even though she was a man!" I said, laughing.
"Right, right, even though she was a man. — Banana Yoshimoto