Doive Etre Quotes & Sayings

She was too proud to eat her share of what little food we had. She told me she had. She swore she did. But every time I complained about being so hungry it hurt, she always offered me a nut or a partially rotted turnip, claiming she had just found two and already ate hers."

Rose sniffled and wiped her eyes again.

"After she was gone, I left my pride in that little hut and begged my way to Medford. I'd do anything. Once you've spent an afternoon chasing a fly around your house for dinner, once you've eaten spiders whole and drooled over worms found while burying your mother with your bare hands, there's nothing beneath you. All I wanted was to live-I'd forgotten everything else. A clod of dirt doesn't have dreams. A bit of broken stone doesn't understand hope. Each morning, all I wanted was to see the next dawn. — Michael J. Sullivan

And with the trick, much admired by magicians, of sitting in a green velour chair and-vanishing! Turn your head and you forgot his face. Vanilla pudding. — Ray Bradbury

People more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you. — Agatha Christie

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat. — Darrell Royal

For maybe the first time in my life, I had tried to do the safe thing, and it had blown up in my face. Never, ever again. — Rick Bragg

God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. — Oswald Chambers

They would continue to live in New Tiamaat, orbiting Crucible. — Alastair Reynolds

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality. — Diego Maradona

I would quit while you're ahead. Really. It's an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and you write, and you have to throw almost all of it away because it's not any good. I would say just stop now. You don't want to do this to yourself. That's my advice to you. — Philip Roth

Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make. — Adam S. McHugh

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made. — Regina King

Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they a re going to be sad later. — Steven Moffat

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice. — R.L. Stine