Holdatsea Quotes & Sayings

Child," she said placing her head to mine and her callused fingers on my cheek, "you can whip it and beat it senseless, you can drag it through the streets and spin on it, you can even dangle it from a tree, drive spikes trough it, and drain the last breath from it, but in the end, no matter what you do, and no matter how hard you try to kill it, love wins. — Charles Martin

How do you make anyone strong without breaking them? — J.J. McAvoy

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude. — Richard Rohr

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic. — Julie Burchill

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this. — Andrew Lloyd Webber

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. — Florence Nightingale

Bring relevance to the people before teaching them to be believers — Sunday Adelaja

I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home. — Danny Brown

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence. — Salma Hayek

To effectively contain a civilization's development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science. — Liu Cixin

There's something I've noticed, sir,' he said, 'ever since we joined up with you in Spain.'
'What's that?'
'That we're always outnumbered and surrounded.'
Sharpe had been listening, not to Harper, but to the day itself. 'Notice anything?' he asked.
'That we're surrounded and outnumbered, sir? — Bernard Cornwell

I lived in Boston until last year," he said, in a falsely low-key way, because "Boston" was code for Harvard (otherwise he would say MIT or Tufts or anywhere else), just as another woman said, "I was in New Haven," in that coy manner that pretended not to be coy, which meant that she had been at Yale. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds. — William Carlos Williams

People can go very badly awry in this individual quest. But when the quest is fortunate, there comes a lifetime of creative innovative action. — Joseph Campbell

My real heroes have always been sportswriters. — Dan Jenkins