Destouches Quotes & Sayings

Those not present are always wrong. — Philippe Nericault Destouches

Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop. — Philippe Nericault Destouches

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small. — Philippe Nericault Destouches

We need to be Atticus. Hands in our pockets. Calm. Believing. So that our children will look at us and even with a fire raging in front of them, they'll say, "Huh. Guess it's not time to worry yet." Then we'll watch carefully. We'll just watch and wait and believe until God nods and says, "It's time. Tear open that gift, Mama. — Glennon Doyle Melton

I'm very, very pro-defense. — James Lankford

You said you loved me. No one has ever said that to me before and it meant something. So if you think I'm going to let you get on a goddamn plane and fly out of my life, you've got another think coming." One strong hand grasped her knee and curled it around his waist. When he ground his erection into her damp center, her head fell back onto the mattress with a whimper. "I will follow you, do you understand me? You don't get to swoop in, make me fall in love with you, and bail. That's not how this is going to work." Daniel rotated his hips once, twice. "Can you live without this? Because I can't. I won't. — Tessa Bailey

The good thing about Heavy Books (Ex: The Collected Works of William Shakespeare), is that when you're glue-ing something you can use them for weights. — John Arnold

The absent are always in the wrong — Philippe Nericault Destouches

Death is a part of life ... and that part of life needs everything that the rest of life does. — Jok Church

Criticism is easy, art is difficult. — Philippe Nericault Destouches

God is my desire, Faith is my guardian, and the Love of Christ is my portion forever. For God is Love and without Him I am nothing. — Anya VonderLuft

Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope. — Robert Veninga