Jareen Callender Quotes & Sayings

My hands ache from the fists I hadn't realized I'd clenched. My body shouts to run. Every nerve is alive and on fire. If I get to my drugs in time I can cut off the worst parts ... the shaking involuntarily, the feeling of being shocked with an electrical current, the horrible knowledge that the world is going to end and no one knows it but me. — Jenny Lawson

I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere. — Bobbie Ann Mason

It helps me keep things in perspective, and sometimes it helps me forget. Whenever I think things are too much, I come here. No matter what is going on or how bad it seems, when I sit on this bench, I'm reminded that the water continues to flow, the waves keep crashing on the shore, and life goes on around me. — Victoria Michaels

You have to want a thing enough to reach out for it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's ["Into Thin Air"] there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for what? For money and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers. — David Breashears

Now or neverI 'To be or not to be!' - Oblomov raised himself from his chair a little, but failing to find his slippers with his feet at once, sat down again. — Ivan Goncharov

Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated. — Siri Hustvedt

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially — Veronica Roth

In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not to appear very sympathetic, but sufficiently weak to be a more-or-less accessible target (since the concentration of power and money are beyond reach). Science fulfills these conditions, and this partly explains the attacks against it. — Alan Sokal

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending. — Martin Heidegger

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. — Edna Ferber

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. — William E. Gladstone

Suspicion ruins the atmosphere of trust in a team and makes it ineffective — Sunday Adelaja

To be ignorant of history is to remain always a child. — Marcus Tullius Cicero