Esmesc Quotes & Sayings

He will put you in situations where you absolutely must have a miracle. The reason He does that is because He wants you to know with all certainty that it is Him working in your life. So don't be alarmed if the Spirit leads you into situations that are impossible without a miracle from God. — Stormie O'martian

The arrow always tipped with ill nature and sarcasm is deadliest to him who sends it. — Prentice Mulford

Why should I keep myself so safe?" he asked her, but he was almost asking himself. What is there in my life worth preserving? With a good wife back there in the mountains, serviceable as an old spoon, dry in the heart from having been scared of marriage since she was six? With three children so shy of their father, the Prince of the Arjikis, that they will hardly come near him? With a careworn clan moving here, moving there, going through th same disputes, herding the same herds, as thy have done for five hundred years? And me, with a shallow and undirected mind, no artfulness in word or habit, no especial kindness toward the world? What is there that makes my life worth preserving?
"I love you," said Elphaba.
"So that's that then, and that's it," he answered her and himself. "And I love you. So I promise to be careful. — Gregory Maguire

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are
broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain. — Marcel Proust

When I look back all is flux, without beginning and flowing towards no end, or none that I shall experience, except as a final full stop. The items of flotsam that I choose to salvage from the general wreckage - and what is a life but a gradual shipwreck? - may take on an aspect of inevitability when I put them on display in their glass showcases, but they are random; representative, perhaps, perhaps compellingly so, but random nonetheless. — John Banville

I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews. — Rebecca Donovan

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

You'll have more power when you aren't angry. Anger sucks your energy. It makes you weak and distorts your focus. — A. Valentine Joseph

Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope
but not for us. — Franz Kafka

Never stop your child from using their imagination and having fantasies, as they could become the next great author.
~ D.L. Bates — Dennis Lee Bates Jr.

Those that choose to walk in the light will experience light.
Those that choose the opposite path create for themselves the opposite experience. — Molly Friedenfeld

The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readily or with quicker intelligence. In ways that we do not easily or willingly define, the gangster speaks for us, expressing that part of the American psyche which rejects the qualities and the demands of modern life, which rejects Americanism itself. — Robert Warshow

Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment. — Carly Fiorina