Derosier Builders Quotes & Sayings

Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions
not just constant sunshiny happiness. — Janet Gonzalez-Mena

Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank. — George Will

Abigail read in Reader's Digest that all plane landings were controlled crashes. Like the way we live our lives, she thought. Bumble through doing the best we can and hoping that some benevolence keeps us from crashing. — Chris Abani

A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. — Samuel Rogers

People who lose money always need someone to blame. — James Chanos

My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

Love was not something that fell on a person out of a clear sky, but a warm affection that slowly grew from years of sharing life's toils. — Amy Belding Brown

Try this." O'Grady smiled. "It's the only thing we drink. It'll warm your insides."
"What is it?" Asked the ever cautious Waldo.
"We call it the Forest Flaming Special. Go ahead-drink up."
"Well, okay...." Waldo lifted the cup and nearly dropped it when saw his name printed clearly on the side.
"We've been expecting you." Explained Fred, beginning to laugh. — Donald Jeffries

The spectacle takes us away from our routines. For at least a time, we feel part of something big, colorful, exciting. It is perhaps understandable that civilians are often more enthusiastic during wartime than soldiers who have experienced battle. The soldiers know that war is often boring and dirty as well as terrifying and colorful. Even so, after some years, an old soldier like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., could brush aside his earlier description of the pain, boredom, and death of war and declare that "its message was divine." The stench disappears, but the spectacle remains in memory's eye. — Nel Noddings

Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'? — Margaret Mitchell

Perhaps that's another reason true intimacy is so frightening. It's the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get. — Donald Miller