Giver Precise Language Quotes & Sayings

If ever a girl was [worth waiting], Val, it'd be you, but I can't promise that. You have no idea what my life is like. There are always too many beautiful and willing women. There's too much temptation. Too much expectation. If I wasn't getting it from you I'd probably stray. I know how that sounds, but I'm just being honest. I'm only human, Val. A weak one who's been indulged way too long. I can't give you what you're asking for because I'm afraid of breaking your heart. — Kelly Oram

I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic side. She still has the stick-figure drawings framed. — Julia Stiles

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history. — Susan Abulhawa

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously. — Graham Elliot

Can't stop what's coming. Ain't no waiting on you. That's vanity. — Cormac McCarthy

No young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative. — Mary Church Terrell

I don't believe any lip shade is off-limits, but texture is key. A sheer lipstick in a healthy pink or neutral color looks more polished and grown-up than a super-shiny gloss. — Bobbi Brown

Men of his strength of purpose, and customary sagacity, if they chance to adopt a mistaken opinion in practical matters, so wedge it and fasten it among things known to be true, that to wrench it out of their minds is hardly less difficult than pulling up an oak. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Timmy put his head to the floor, nose to nose with Thumper. Thumper opened her eyes and gave the kid a lick. Timmy licked her back.
"Don't lick the dog," I said.
"She did it first."
"Yeah, but she cleans her butt with that tongue. Presumably, you don't."
-Jason & 4yoa nephew Timmy — John Inman

I'm not wearing a golden sombrero. — Charlie Sheen

James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity. — Brigitte Bardot

The motivation hacker learns to steer his life towards higher Value and to have fun demolishing boring necessities in his way. Impulsiveness — Nick Winter

It was so - oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!"
The Giver nodded. "It is."
"Do you see it all the time?"
"I see all of them. All the colors."
"Will I? — Lois Lowry

I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power. — Damon Galgut

The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism. — Bobby Knight

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility ... There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges. — Harry A. Blackmun