Hings West Quotes & Sayings

I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to admit the truth to yourself, and sometimes we deceive ourselves - along with others - about our reasons and motives. — Adam Brody

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event. — J.B. Priestley

He dreamt ... he was a huge white egg floating in the sea of turquoise blue, and he was everything that there was. — Iris Murdoch

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of religious fervor, however ridiculous, not realizing that true religion must be according to God's will as the perfect measure; that He can never deny Himself and is no mere spirit form to be changed around according to individual preference. — John Calvin

I'm angry that I want to cry because I feel like I've been manipulated by the soundtrack in my head - the same one that made me cry in some shit sentimental movie with Julia Roberts where the mum is dying of cancer. — Melina Marchetta

What are books? They become our best friends, they enrich our lives, they allow us to escape, if only for a time, into another world, whatever the genre... — Colette Kebell

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another. — Walter Savage Landor

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast. — Jim Butcher

If all you do is work, you're unlikely to have sound judgments. Your values and decision making wind up skewed. You stop being able to decide what's worth extra effort and what's not. And you wind up just plain tired. No one makes sharp decisions when tired. — Jason Fried

I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on. — Jennifer Weiner

Maybe it doesn't matter how much gets done. Maybe the value is in the process - in touching each item, in naming and identifying, in acknowledging the significance of a cardigan, a pair of children's boots. "It's — Christina Baker Kline

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God. — Henry David Thoreau