Quotes & Sayings About Jem's Bravery

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. — Robert Quillen

Why are you always trying to get yourself killed?"
"It's my job."
"It's a hazard of your job. At least for most Shadowhunters. For you it seems to be the purpose. — Cassandra Clare

There have been great champions in every generation. — Andy Roddick

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present. — Daniel L. Pals

Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building. — Boyd K. Packer

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those. — Bill Condon

I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel. — Kenneth Oppel

Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her. — Marguerite Duras

And then I met this girl." He paused, his fingers finding mine in a tight squeeze. "And she made all my dark corners light — Gwen Hayes

A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.' — Oscar Isaac

I discovered that being thankful and experiencing the power and presence of Jesus Christ are tightly entwined. As we practice thankfulness, we experience more of God's transforming grace, God's thereness. — Mark Buchanan

In ancient Greek, the word for the highest degree of human happiness is eudaimonia, which basically means "well-daemoned" - that is, nicely taken care of by some external divine creative spirit guide. — Elizabeth Gilbert