Derrane Quotes & Sayings

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that. — Norah Vincent

Sanity was a promised land, the Shangri-la she had been deported from as a teenager, and to which she intended to return to one day. — Elif Shafak

Thinking for the Sake of Global Faithfulness: Encountering Islam with the Mind of Christ THABITI ANYABWILE — John Piper

What can I do?" Klaus asked.
"You can pray this works," Violet said, but the Baudelaire sisters were so quick with their tasks that there was no time for even the shortest of religious ceremonies. — Lemony Snicket

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were. — John McLaughlin

Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out. — Ellen Pompeo

She is something else. — C.J. Duggan

Sam had a skill that often let him take what he needed. But you couldn't do that with love. It had to be given. Shared. — Libba Bray

The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate. — Benjamin Graham

As each sun rises, it is your choice to wait for some special day to celebrate, or to celebrate that each day is special. — Julia Rose

Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!' ... One feels that something more than human power is needed to produce the essential psychic change. Though the aggregate of recoveries resulting from psychiatric effort is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole. Many types do not respond to the ordinary psychological approach. — William Duncan Silkworth

Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves. — Mark Nepo

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go. — Yogi Berra

She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done. — John Kenneth Galbraith

And her taste in men should be applauded until the cows came home and tap-danced on the front lawn.' (Taryn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon