Making Every Second Count Quotes & Sayings

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star ... — Meg Wolitzer

For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration? — Lena Dunham

I keep chicks in my lap, throwing me head fakes! — Fabolous

Failure is success if we learn from it. — William Ewart Gladstone

The time you absolutely have to get off your ass and act is when action seems futile — Marty Rubin

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. — G.K. Chesterton

I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along. — Emmeline Pankhurst

I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight. — Bruce Lansky

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. — Frederick Buechner

Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is. — B.K.S. Iyengar

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! — Francis Scott Key

Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who report histories of childhood trauma characteristically describe themes of ongoing inner struggle regarding their identity; of inner battles for survival; or other images of anger, conflict, and violence. P13 — Marlene Steinberg

First try all other means, but if the wound
Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
From the diseased the canker spread. — Ovid

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? — Kate Chopin

Mikhail seated himself across the small table from her, his eyes drifting lazily, possessively, over her alluring curves. "Why do you dress in men's clothes?" he asked.
"She laughed, soft and melodious, and her eyes lit with mischief. "Because I knew it would annoy you."
He threw his head back and laughed.

-Mikhail & Raven — Christine Feehan