Hc Andersen Quotes & Sayings

Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that. — Greg Boyle

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing. — Alan Moore

You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A reality shaped around your own desires - there is something sociopathic in that ambition. — Zadie Smith

When you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships — Ray Lewis

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble. — Marya Mannes

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me. — Camryn Manheim

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws. — Ilsa J. Bick

Scrape knees for love. Tell hard truths for love. And definitely run heart-first into the unknown for love. Try to have a plan. But if you don't, make sure you have people. You coming, mi gente? — Gabby Rivera

I remember thinking how wise a man was HC Andersen. The king told his secrets down a well, and his secrets were safe. A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice. Some paint it with their own delight. — John Steinbeck

The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time. — Dwight L. Moody

My only saving grace is that I actually collect things that nobody else is interested in. — Phil Collins

An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind. — Marvin Minsky

I love your kids."
"Make me an offer."
"Yeah, no. I'll just visit in their natural habitat. — Tere Michaels

Up ahead about two blocks, a massive figure stepped out into her path.
She halted. Took a deep breath. Felt a prickling in her eyes.
On the breeze drifting down to her, John's unmistakable bonding scent was a dark spice that wiped out the stink of the city and the wretched sting of her unhappiness.
She started walking toward him. Fast. Faster ...
Now she was running.
He met her halfway, falling into a jog as soon as he saw her pick up the pace, and they slammed into each other.
Hard to know whose mouth found whose, or whose arms were cinched tighter, or who was the desperate one.
But then, in this they were equals. — J.R. Ward

The sky is a virginal blue translucence as though bereft for a fleeting moment of the effects of both light and darkness. A crimson streak smoulders over the outline of the hills, a simmering bloodline. There is a solitary canoe on the water. A cold white sheen rises from the water. She holds her breath. As if to stop any more time from passing, to stop the future happening. The peacefulness of the morning is almost heartbreaking in its fragility. — Glenn Haybittle

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. — David Hare