Forewords Examples Quotes & Sayings

People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?" — Ozzy Osbourne

It was harder, I thought, to watch someone in pain than to be in it yourself. — Maggie Stiefvater

My body craved sunshine; winter felt like an addict's withdrawal. — Sharon E. Rainey

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college. — Grant Achatz

Travel broadens the mind. Travel shrinks the wallet. Travel shrivels the testicles. — Zanesh Catkin

I've always been your friend, Alexa. Now go. I will try to kill you as unsuccessfully as I can. — Daniel Suarez

Bold to the point of recklessness. Brave and brash. — Brandon Sanderson

The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in His own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

We are committed to raising our children as Jews. I knew that it had to start with me at a greater level, at a deeper level, if it was going to be a meaningful example to them. — David Gregory

Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it. — Virginia McKenna

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. — Rumi

Dear Little Dorrit, it is not my imprisonment only that will soon be over. This sacrifice of you must be ended. We must learn to part again, and to take our different ways so wide asunder. You have not forgotten what we said together, when you came back? — Charles Dickens

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual. — Mahatma Gandhi

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: I survived. Isn't that what matters? — Melissa Marr

Just her luck to be abducted by kidnappers who could think. — Stephanie Laurens