Haida Gwaii Quotes & Sayings

No one likes to be afraid. Fear is the enemy of love & faith & it robs us of our sleep & our sunrise & makes us treacherous & venal& fills our glands with toxins & effaces our identity & gives flight to any vestige of self respect. If you have ever been afraid, truly afraid, in a way that makes your hair soggy with sweat & turns your skin gray & fouls your blood & spiritually eviscerates you to the point you cannot pray, lest your prayers be a concession to your conviction that you're about to die, you know what I am talking about. If you do not have the option of either fleeing or attacking your adversary, your level of fear will grow to the point where you feel like your skin is being stripped from your bones. — James Lee Burke

I said nothing. If she wasn't careful, everyone would rush out of her life, life out of a burning building. — Lorrie Moore

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery. — Max Von Sydow

We can learn even from our enemies. — Ovid

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular. — William Golding

Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you ... — Rex Stout

I went up a pants size during my pregnancy. — Ellen Pompeo

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming. — Bill McKibben

Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor
Why talk of anything else? — Rumi

Let your failures refine you, not define you. — Max Lucado

Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love. — John Francis Waller