Everyday Is A Step Closer Quotes & Sayings

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. — C.S. Lewis

Tiago smacked Aryal in the back of the head. It didn't look like a gentle blow. Touch her plate and die. — Thea Harrison

Teenage boys were just a loose aggregation of appetites. — Barbara Kingsolver

I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was an absolute embarrassment to read it. All these horrible mucked-up bits of syntax, over-the-top adjectives. I found myself editing it while reading. Alert listeners will notice the difference. — Simon Schama

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. — Warren Spahn

Do not allow your thoughts to condemn you. Be control of your mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions. — Niall Horan

The one who knows and fears the Lord of Hosts need fear no other. — Edmund Clowney

Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. — James Mooney

You feel well, Ali? You have a very faraway look on your face, beta,' my dad said. 'Like you have left your heart behind.'

He fixed me with eyes as liquid black as mine and for a moment I felt exposed, like he could see right through me. That irrational childhood thought that he could read my mind maybe.

'What nonsense, his heart is here with his mother and his family. Tell him, Ali,' my mother said.

'Begum, this generation of boys and girls, you know how they are.' My dad never said my mother's name; she was always Begum, the generic term for 'wife'. — Ruth Ahmed