Doriane Coleman Quotes & Sayings

Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels. — Clementine Holzinger

Kate faced the crowd. They were just eyes and teeth to her, just spit and voices. It was a moment, even, before they became people: a man with one blind eye, another whose neck was thick with lumps and weeping wounds of scrofula. The poorest of the market.
At Kate's feet, Drina. Her scarf and shirt were torn open. — Erin Bow

You have to decide what you want in life and pursue what you want with all your heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God. — Epictetus

Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more. — Roger Ebert

I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him. — George Carlin

We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too. — Mary Hart

Friends will hand over anything that is needed and think nothing of it! — William Golding

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose. — Winston Churchill

It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong. — Elizabeth Berg

I believe in God. But I do not believe the same things about Him that I did years ago, when I was growing up or when I was a theological student. I recognize His limitations. He is limited in what He can do by laws of nature and by the evolution of human nature and human moral freedom. I no longer hold God responsible for illnesses, accidents, and natural disasters, because I realize that I gain little and I lose so much when I blame God for those things. I can worship a God who hates suffering but cannot eliminate it, more easily than I can worship a God who chooses to make children suffer and die, for whatever exalted reason.
Some years ago, when the "death of God" theology was a fad, I remember seeing a bumper sticker that read "My God is not dead; sorry about yours." I guess my bumper sticker reads "My God is not cruel; sorry about yours. — Harold S. Kushner