Little Getaway Was Much Needed Quotes & Sayings

All this time, he thought magic had chosen him. Maybe magic never chose. Maybe it had always been about the fit. A key latching into a hole. Maybe there had been just enough holes in him for magic to slip through and hook him like spurs into cloth. — Roshani Chokshi

But where good is promoted and evil is fought against for the healing of humanity, this historical praxis in fact confirms the nature of God- God as salvation for men and women, the basis of universal hope - and people moreover receive God's salvation: in and through a love which is put into practice. — Edward Schillebeeckx

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. — Harry S. Truman

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it. — Paul Christopher

The things we truly need to say are best said through action. — Marty Rubin

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. — Curtis Mayfield

Poor old Agnes! So ambitious. He guessed he had been quite a disappointment to her . . . and no doubt the change of life wasn't making things any easier for her. Well, at least she was loyal, right to her toes . . . and we all have our shortcomings; she was probably as sick of him as he - no point in that! — Robert A. Heinlein

What you're feeling now, and the person you may reach with your words five years from now-that's why you write poetry. — Colleen Hoover

The king and the would-be queen," Ailinn said. "As it was prophesized, as it was written, as it was seen. — E.J. Stevens

The ground heaved, and then, because the air was bright and the birds were — Lauren Groff

They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy — Jorge Luis Borges

If you aren't losing weight, and you know you need to (you know), then you gotta go look in the mirror. Step up and own it. Don't hate yourself. Don't play the victim. Just admit that there's some room for improvement and start improving. It might be two steps forward and one step back for a while. That's fine. It's still one step forward. — Shannon Sorrels

When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore. — Fiona McIntosh