Derafsh Quotes & Sayings

Well! And hallo you! said Jerry, more hoarsely than before. — Charles Dickens

Then the Bible says that human beings were made in God's image. That means, among other things, that we were created to worship and live for God's glory, not our own. We were made to serve God and others. That means paradoxically that if we try to put our own happiness ahead of obedience to God, we violate our own nature and become, ultimately, miserable. Jesus restates the principle when he says, "Whoever wants to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matthew 16:25). He is saying, "If you seek happiness more than you seek me, you will have neither; if you seek to serve me more than serve happiness, you will have both. — Timothy Keller

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd. — Natalie Merchant

As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it. — Karen Elson

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end. — Samuel Beckett

There was an intruder on a forbidden part of the island, and the security system was compromised. Another image of Archer's sword slicing through a ghoul came to mind. Yeah, compromised was one word for it. — Rachel Hawkins

Flurries of snow obscured the view through the windows, but they were halfhearted and ultimately inconsequential, like the parting shots of a defeated army. Angel — John Connolly

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume. — Victor Hugo

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me. — Elizabeth Olsen

The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Franklin, the whole house was on Zoloft. — Lionel Shriver

You're different, you know."
"Only different from you," he said. "Not different from me. — Belinda Bauer