Donatist Quotes & Sayings

And he who lieth there was childless. I have dried the fountain of gentle race..
-Cain — George Gordon Byron

There is a greater will, a greater need and purpose hidden within each life, and there is an inner law that knows best how each must live and that is worth stealing for; it's worth dying for, and worth living for as well. — Michael Meade

I've come alive since I met you. — E.L. James

So we go through in the beginning of the night, we go into the really deep stages of sleep and we actually cycle through. So, when you go down to the deep stage, then you go back up and you actually come into something called REM sleep, which is after about 90 minutes. — Shelby Harris

I grew up in Lincolnshire, trying to get the daughters of farmers and policemen to like me. It didn't go well until I got to college where, suddenly, there were different sorts of humans. — Robert Webb

Some of what makes growing up hard for famous kids is that they don't have room to do immature stuff. I was really happy that I could go to school and hang out behind the alley and be somewhat irresponsible. — Tavi Gevinson

I saw myself, sharply, as a wanderer, an adventurer, rocking through the world, unanchored.
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The wind of my life was blowing me away.
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I take the blue envelope ... and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watching the wind carry them away. Yet as I turn and begin walking toward the waiting people, the wind blows some of them back on me. — James Baldwin

Harry nearly prayed it wasn't one of her friends who smelled like the beach and books and brine. He inhaled when they stopped for the light, and was simultaneously relieved and agitated to realize, no, it was her. — Paullina Simons

The world sometimes seems a chessboard where the pieces move themselves. I'm never sure what square to go to. Yet it can't be a difficult game, most folk play it instinctively. — Alasdair Gray

Names, names, all passed away, forgotten, mere birdsong in the bushes of things. — Sebastian Barry

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well. — Marianne Williamson

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists. — Dan Quayle

The notes were born on her breath, and they died at her lips. — Markus Zusak

I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I write novels I also use techniques which can run counter to those that a novelist would use. — Philippe Claudel