Dwan Mathis Quotes & Sayings

Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins. — Erma Bombeck

She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness. — Lara Adrian

Eva," he rasped, cupping the back of her head and forcing her to look at him. "Marry me, darlin'. — Madeline Sheehan

I mean that I am going to miss Cristina Yang so much that my heart hurts. — Shonda Rhimes

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance. — Bridget Of Sweden

Even if you feel like you have lost Him, Gavi, He hasn't lost you. — Martha Finley

Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart! — Pope Francis

If a woman is physically active during labor, her baby is constantly repositioning in the womb, readjusting and descending, preparing for the birth. Requiring a woman to be in bed during any part of her labor and decreasing her ability to move increases the need for interventions. — Barbara Harper

Banish your sentimentality (and I have left out the most heart-touching passages): Is there not something fabulously grotesque about a regime that in the midst of total war will pedantically insist that Jews and their spouses either euthanize their own pets or surrender them to the state for extermination? — Christopher Hitchens

On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distanced from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone in dark and dreary places. Often enough that distress can be of our own making, but even then the Father of us all is watching and assisting. And always there are those angels who come and go all around us, seen and unseen, known and unknown, mortal and immortal. — Jeffrey R. Holland

After we finished touring 'Ignore The Ignorant' we had this perfect idea that we were going to take a couple of years off, that was the plan. Because we thought we were definitely going to take time off, I was going to go back to college, that was what I was going to do. Because the whole idea of it was that I have spent ten years in this band and not even realised that that amount of time has passed. — Ryan Jarman

There's always hope. Always. You just never know what life - or death - might bring. I think we've all seen that the world is a little more complicated than we ever could have imagined. — James Dashner

I've always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and climb into my bay window. I may not be inspired every day, but on the days I am, I need to be in place to write. If I'm not particularly inspired, I'll revise or do research or correspondence. — Diane Ackerman

Silence rolled at me, in waves.
They are all dead, and you are free.
And you are blameless. — Joyce Carol Oates

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day. — Lupita Nyong'o