Headtrip Slapshock Quotes & Sayings

More than once, while staring at the wall, I'd thought of Our Lady. I wanted to talk to her, to say, Where do I go from here? But when I'd seen her earlier, when August and I had first come in, she didn't look like she could be of service to anybody, bound up with all that chain around her. You want the one you're praying to at least to look capable. I dragged myself out of bed and went to see her anyway. I decided that even Mary did not need to be one hundred percent capable all the time. The only thing I wanted was for her to understand. Somebody to let out a big sigh and say, You poor thing, I know how you feel. Given a choice, I preferred someone to understand my situation, even though she was helpless to fix it, rather than the other way around. But that's just me. Right — Sue Monk Kidd

So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Shake me off, then, sir
push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord. — Charlotte Bronte

Do you like him much?'
I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'
Is he?'
All boys are. — Charlotte Bronte

I hate putting up taxes. — James Callaghan

When he had made the payment for sin that God's people had needed all along, he said, "It is finished" and bowed his head, not in resignation, but in victory (John — Chris Bruno

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

Sorry, but all I can think about are those people who were stranded in the snow and had to eat one another. — J. Lynn

Water makes me feel at peace. In Corsica, I spend most of my time on the beaches or in the rivers. That's one reason I love it there so much. The water is so clean and fresh - you can drink it straight out of the rivers! This island is my secret garden. — Laetitia Casta

I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain. — Suzanne Palmieri

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people. — Milton Friedman

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves. — Colin Powell

It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle. — Meg Rosoff