Gounakia Quotes & Sayings

The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened. — Frank Church

Sissy Mae Smith ... stumbled into the room loaded down with even more bags. "You pack like a woman," she snarled when she finally dropped the luggage to the floor. "How can one man have so much conditioner?"
His mouth filled with French toast, Mitch pointed at his hair and snarled, "Tawny mane! Do you think this shit stays this beautiful on its own? It needs care and love! Which is more than I'm getting from you! — Shelly Laurenston

Replace the negative talk that will hinder you. Replace it with praises for God, who will deliver you. — Lysa TerKeurst

The most beautiful novel is the one that starts with a sentence wholly unexpected by the reader who has lived through our storms and norms, and who might once have been the cause of our changing moods. — Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Modern politics is like watching a film with only bad guys. It soon starts to get really boring, because one of the points of stories is that they should have some sort of redeeming character, or, at the very least, trick the viewer into believing such. But seeing the world nowadays has no such effect, its bad guys VS bad guys VS bad guys, and all you can think about is how the hell can I switch off this horrible depravity — Martijn Benders

I think one of the most underreported and untouted benefits of the Affordable Care Act is the real investments we are finally making in this country in prevention. — Kathleen Sebelius

You are the best friend you will ever have. In the presence of your true self you will become the most peaceful, the most relaxed, the most natural person possible. — Bartholomaus

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been. — Nipsey Russell

Don't tell anyone, but sometimes I'm not sure I understand how planes even stay in the air. — Elle Kennedy

If you just stick your big toe in the water when it comes to helping someone else, you'll get one big toe's worth of life change. — Sue Miller

Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the humiliation of a succubus who moonlights as a Christmas elf?"
"You always said I should quit the bookstore and find something else to do," I reminded him.
"Yes, but that was because I thought you'd go on to do something respectable. Like become a stripper or the Mayor's mistress. — Richelle Mead

She drank like a drowning man helplessly swallowing sea water, in accordance with some law of nature. To ask for nothing means that one has lost one's freedom to choose or reject. Once having decided that, one has no choice but to drink anything - even sea water ... .
Afterwards, however, Etsuko felt none of the nausea of a drowning person. Until the moment of her death, it seemed, no one would know she was drowning. She did not call out - she was a woman bound and gagged by her own hand. — Yukio Mishima