Giraffalaff Quotes & Sayings

God's comprehensive rule should ultimately stir faith, not frustration. I say ultimately because the biblical writers asked tough questions long before we did. They saw injustice and wondered about the purpose for the duration of evil. They were frustrated at times. They cried out to God, beat their chests, shed many tears, and endured much suffering. The sovereignty of God was not an abstract doctrine to faithful followers - it kept them hopeful, it helped them persevere, and it can do the same for Christians now. — Mitchell L. Chase

Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people? — Mitchell Reiss

I want to see the thirst
inside the syllables
I want to touch the fire
in the sound:
I want to feel the darkness
of the cry. I want
words as rough
as virgin rocks. - Verb. — Pablo Neruda

We who have travelled much and loved much: we who have
I will not say suffered for we have always recognized through suffering our own self-sufficiency
only we appreciate the complexities of tenderness, and understand how narrowly love and friendship are related — Lawrence Durrell

He writes nothing whose writings are not read. — Martial

know what it is to love someone and to say the most terrible things to them, in anger or anguish. — Paula Hawkins

I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do ... — John Geddes

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone. — Matthew Macfadyen

Security is the chief enemy of mortals. — William Shakespeare

My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer. — Ziyi Zhang

I'm the most fluent liar in the world, I'm the coolest, the smoothest
'Rachel Abercrombie.'
A lie, Savich thought. — Catherine Coulter