Derocker Quotes & Sayings

Books - they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions. — John Green

Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket. — Gino Bartali

Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit
appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free. — Joseph Warren

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. — Anais Nin

You can't just mess with somebody's prescription, and I really like wearing glasses. It's my eyesight and I don't want to mess with that. — Michelle Chamuel

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path. — Soren Kierkegaard

You're hard?" I smile. "Well, you're hot," he says with a shrug. — Samantha Towle

Aw, how could he Jorge Orta lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico. — Harry Caray

That wonderful, terrible night when her mother died and her whole world had been destroyed, when she realized she loved Kai and her whole world had been created anew. — Diana Peterfreund

She wasn't afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path.
Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now.
'I'm afraid of committing myself,' she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.
Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic dissappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life. — Paulo Coelho