Kilbury Manor Quotes & Sayings

All she knew was that his smile lit up the morning as the rising sun does. For a moment, looking at his face, it was as if her ribs were empty, hollow, as if the world had stopped forever while she looked into his eyes as blue as the bellflowers that grew wild across the meadows. For a moment, just until her beating heart had returned to her chest, Birle had thought she understood everything about herself she had never understood before. — Cynthia Voigt

His eyes gleamed confidently and made him look ridiculously handsome and annoying at the same time — Justine Dell

I didn't understand love, so I certainly didn't love myself enough; I'd only functioned in survival. Survival was easy because when you fight to survive the only person you have to consider is yourself. — Love Belvin

America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism. — Camille Paglia

Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine. — Larry Holmes

You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel. — Hafez

We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't. — Mariel Hemingway

As a result, they were all astounded and gave glory to God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!" Mark 2:12 — Beth Moore

I found her in the living room watching re-runs of Sons of Anarchy. I think she had a thing for Charlie Hunnam. — B.B. Reid

Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them. — Bruce Van Horn

Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics. — Paul Gibbons

Sea horses have complicated routines for courtship, and tend to mate under full moons, making musical sounds while doing so. They live in long-term monogamous partnerships. What is perhaps most unusual, though, is that it is the male sea horse that carries the young for up to six weeks. Males become properly "pregnant," not only carrying, but fertilizing and nourishing the developing eggs with fluid secretions. The image of males giving birth is perpetually mind-blowing: a turbid liquid bursts forth from the brood pouch, and like magic, minuscule but fully formed sea horses appear out of the cloud. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will. — Joyce Meyer

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true — Jack Kerouac