Laberge Curtis Quotes & Sayings

A funny thing about charisma: the same people who can make you feel an inch tall can also make you feel huge, fortified, sometimes almost simultaneously. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Turning down this invitation comes in lots of flavors. It looks like numbing yourself or distracting yourself or seeing something really beautiful as just normal. It can also look like refusing to forgive or not being grateful or getting wrapped around the axle with fear or envy. I think every day God sends us an invitation to live and sometimes we forget to show up or get head-fakes into thinking we haven't really been invited. But you see, we have been invited - every day, all over again. — Bob Goff

The fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow to world prosperity that ended up in a war that killed countless millions. It was one of the greatest acts of wreckage in world history. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm person, not given to the dark mood swings which now plagued her. — John Grisham

There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ. — David Platt

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. — Marina Tsvetaeva

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die! — James Fenimore Cooper

Yes, I am a bloodthirsty little thing. No, I don't have any problem inflicting violence when I deem it necessary. Yes, 'when I'm pissed' falls under the necessary column. — Annie Anderson

One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach

It's just a part of our nature to hope. — Elizabeth Edwards

While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie