Father Duffy Quotes & Sayings

With guided hands, the world can change with a little love, hope, courage and determination. — Carolyn Kulhavy

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. — William Ernest Henley

I am an atheist ... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense. — Andy Rooney

God endowed you with a glory when he created you, a glory so deep and mythic that all creation pales in comparison. — John Eldredge

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief. — Carol Ann Duffy

We started this thing together. That's how we're going to finish it. — Veronica Rossi

Write words you're willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you'd believe in even if the rest of the world didn't. — Lauren DeStefano

There is nothing, for good or for evil, of which a person is incapable. — Jan-Philipp Sendker

My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap. — Karen Duffy

I didn't excel at school. It's amazing what talents get ignored when a person doesn't thrive in a typical education setting. — Ryan Quinn

Distract me, please — Stephenie Meyer

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. — John Sayles

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around. — Ann Oakley

I'm supposed to be a man but I can't help thinking no one ever showed me what that is supposed to look like. Maybe that is why I ride the middle all the time - never offending anyone, never getting a hard time, but never much standing out either. — Heather Duffy Stone

One day, in the very early months of the project, I read several entries in a single week from girls who had been subjected to leering and shouting from men in the street while walking home from school in their uniforms. Dismayed, I posted a question on Twitter: Surely, I asked, this couldn't be a common occurrence? By the end of the day, a deluge of hundreds of tweets had confirmed that the experience was not only common but almost ubiquitous. — Laura Bates

You know she's a liar if she says she's never done it for ten bucks. We've all done it. Practically giving it away. But sometimes you can't even give it away. - excerpt from: freefalling — Darlenne Susan Girard

You know, my father says those are the four most frightening words a woman can say. He claims that nothing good ever begins with "We need to talk." You're worrying me a little here, Duffy. — Kody Keplinger

The Great Point lighthouse rose at the far end of the barrier beach, a tall white steeple to the sky, with a working light flashing at the top. Here was the end of the island, the great point where the Atlantic Ocean met Nantucket Sound in a froth of waves. All along the point, enormous fat seals lolled on the sand, occasionally lumbering in and out of the water, grunting and lounging like a tribe of overfed Roman emperors. — Nancy Thayer