Dunghill Scripture Quotes & Sayings

Name one hero who was happy."
I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.
"You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward.
"I can't."
"I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret."
"Tell me." I loved it when he was like this.
"I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it."
"Why me?"
"Because you're the reason. Swear it."
"I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.
"I swear it," he echoed.
We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.
"I feel like I could eat the world raw. — Madeline Miller

His muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide that was wrinkled in folds of emptiness. It was heartbreaking, only Buck's heart was unbreakable. The man in the red sweater had proved that. — Jack London

Repeating the right message with the wrong frequency has the potential to drive your audience away. — John Arnold

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite. — John Green

Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me ... I couldn't imagine the effect it would have on a person 24 hours a day. So then I became more intrigued, and we began a correspondence, and I began visiting [Todd Willingham]. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I like to remind people what radical means
'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical. — Sonia Johnson

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. — Jean Paul

If you would devote your time to an activity even if you didn't receive payment, you have found a key to your destiny — Sunday Adelaja

Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Savings, remember, is the prerequisite of investment. — Campbell R. McConnell

I've always believed a great photographer should concentrate more on depth of feeling and less on depth of field. — Max Dupain

Just so you don't forget," he began. "You mean more to me today than you did yesterday." Her lips parted and her eyes got bright a different way. "And yesterday you meant a fuckuva lot to me, — Kristen Ashley

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot. — Dan Brown

Barbara said to herself: Oh, please, please, please! Please let nothing go wrong with this - this wildly improbable, impossible, but gorgeous thing. She was not sure to whom to address this invocation. To Venus, perhaps? If the goddess of love were listening, she would surely cherish such an invocation and understand the urgency, the yearning, that lay behind it. — Alexander McCall Smith