Distended Neck Quotes & Sayings

Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point. — Adyashanti

His heart beat so rapidly it might burst; he kept telling himself everything was fine so long as he remained a giraffe. — Andrew Sturm

If we believe that the universe is unfriendly and that our very souls are in danger, peace will be elusive at best. — Joan Z. Borysenko

The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly empowered and entrenched. They live in mansions, they have jobs in the government, and they're incredibly powerful. In Kabul, people don't want to speak about it too publicly, because these people are essentially like Tony Soprano. — Khaled Hosseini

boredom is a pleasing antidote to fear. — Anonymous

I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts. — Bern Will Brown

She heard irony in his tone and the bitter pain gliding, sharklike, beneath it. — Nancy Baker

Werewolf games," Mercy said solemnly, "play for keeps, or go home." She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt. — Patricia Briggs

Isana felt her throat tighten.
"We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly.
"We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference. — Jim Butcher

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction. — Christopher Love

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else. — Steven Pressfield

While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to make myself more famous. I wasn't dealing well with the celebrity of all of that. I was 23 - just a kid - and not coming from money, it was all just too much. I just wanted to slow it down a little bit, and gain control. — Keri Russell

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors. — J.C. Ryle

Some things belong only to the people who lived them. — Courtney Angela Brkic

The afternoon breeze would incite to a weird and flabby activity all that crowded mass of clothing, with its vague suggestions of drowned, mutilated and flattened humanity. Trunks without heads waved at you arms without hands; legs without feet kicked fantastically with collapsible flourishes; and there were long white garments, that taking the wind fairly through their neck openings edged with lace, became for a moment violently distended as by the passage of obese and invisible bodies. On these days you could make out that ship at a great distance by the multi-coloured grotesque riot going on abaft her mizzen-mast. — Joseph Conrad