Devrye Quotes & Sayings

That tension creates the internal stress that drives the anxiety when we are putting in the hours, but end up having nothing to show for all of that work. Myth — Nina Harrington

Create your own tomorrows with your thoughts and actions - today. — Catherine DeVrye

We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary! — Catherine DeVrye

If you find a path with no obstacles, it likely leads nowhere. — Catherine DeVrye

It's OK to be down in the dumps - just don't stay there too long. — Catherine DeVrye

The law of attraction is feeble without the law of action. — Catherine DeVrye

All the next day the pleasure of his success lingers in Werner's blood, the memory of how it seemed almost holy to him to walk beside big Volkheimer back to the castle, down through the frozen trees, past the rooms of sleeping boys ranked like gold bars in strongrooms... — Anthony Doerr

You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror. — Catherine DeVrye

The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of that opportunity. — Catherine DeVrye

The poorest person is not one without a dollar but one without a dream. — Catherine DeVrye

Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way' — Catherine DeVrye

You can't just take her," Jeremy said, his voice growing rough with anger. "She belongs here. She's my wife."
Henry's eyes narrowed. "Not if I kill you, she isn't. Then she's your widow. — Tessa Dare

Love is a great thing ... which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses. — Thomas A Kempis

'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'. — Catherine DeVrye

The Poet
His teeth splayed in a way he'd notice and pity
in his closest enemies or friends.
Youth held his eye; he blinked at passing beauties,
birds of passage that could not close the gap.
His wife was high-blooded, he counted on her living
she lived, past sixty, then lived on in him,
and often when he plotted lines, she breathed
her acrid sweetness past his imaginings.
She was still a magnificent handle of a woman
did she have her lover as a novelist wished her?
No
hating someone nearer, she found her voice
no wife so loved; though Hardy, home from cycling,
was glad to climb unnoticed to his study
by a circling outside staircase, his own design. — Robert Lowell

A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles. — Belsebuub

Gentleman Jim [dog] was cheerful enough, partly because his owner was so well trained... He had alsot trained him to get up when he didn't want to, simply by climbing slowly and painfully on top of him and squeezing all the breath out of him as he slept. On the occasions this didn't work and Gordon seemed to be simply lapsing into a coma, Gentleman Jim would unroll his massive tongue, containing over a half a pint of drool, and dribble it slowly into his ear until Gordon finally awoke... — Livi Michael

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West

Focus on what you can do rather than stress about what you have no control over. — Catherine DeVrye

Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use. — Catherine DeVrye

treachery was in it. He slipped — J.R.R. Tolkien

I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick, — Maya Deren

Hope is what happens when a wound starts to heal;
Whether skin-deep or soul-deep, you begin to feel real. — Catherine DeVrye

When we are fully conscious and aware, we actually know when we are about to overreact. When we are mindful, we have the mental space and are aware of when our moods change. When we are mindful, we are aware of when our mental models are being challenged and when expectation does not meet with reality, which can trigger an emotional response. — Elizabeth Thornton

I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all. — Laurell K. Hamilton

There are always more choices than you think. — Catherine DeVrye

Dream it. Dare it. Do it. — Catherine DeVrye

Pick yourself up when you're feeling down. No one else is likely to. — Catherine DeVrye