Facing Your Giants Book Quotes & Sayings

Life is not notable for its overabundance of certainty. — Jim Butcher

They that have voice of lions and act of hares,
are they not monsters? — William Shakespeare

...that's how love is. It creates pain and joy at the same time, and for the same reason, because deeper aspects of ourselves are brought to light. The openness that love brings, if you are lucky, isn't just being open to the best things in life. You also feel like a child again, and that brings a sense of need that is very vulnerable. — Deepak Chopra

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity. — George Eliot

I don't agree with this romantic fantasy that people who suffer from depression are more likely to be artists. I find that I am more creative when I am happy actually. — Sinead O'Connor

Come on," she said, smiling for the first time since she'd stepped on the plane. "We need to get to the bus before Ian plugs his iPod into the speakers."
Dan shuddered. "I'd rather face a thousand Vespers than listen to Beethoven. — Clifford Riley

All women are created equal Then some become marines. — Katy Perry

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there. — Lysa TerKeurst

You can't satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans. — R. Kelly

Granting that there is some truth to the theory that defects in society give rise to the emergence of criminals, I still maintain that those who use this theory as a defense of criminality are overlooking the fact that there are many people in this defective society who survive without resorting to crime. The argument to the contrary is pure sophistry. — Akira Kurosawa

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated. — Anthony Daniels

feeling is first, — E. E. Cummings

Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five ... but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to. — Jodi Picoult