Maneca Quotes & Sayings

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things.
For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities.
But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds? — Kij Johnson

Sometimes what we desire the most can change who we are, and it's up to us to decide if that's for better or worse. You must learn to control those desires so that you're always on the right path, even if that means never attaining or holding on to the thing you want most." Niko's — Dannika Dark

We can love God out of emotion; but when we can love Him out of emotion, knowledge and strength, our faith will thrive through all things. — Alisa Hope Wagner

The earl looked down at him. "Will he die, Gavin?" "You..." The barest whisper. "...wish."

-Cam & Luc — Katharine Ashe

What a terrible man, I thought, worse than a traitor. At least a traitor betrays people by telling the truth. Uncle Zhu tried to save himself by telling lies. — Ji-li Jiang

Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close. Faces move away from the window. Time passes. Voices recede into the dark. Death finally quiets the voice. And there is no way to deny it. No way to stand in the crowd, uttering one's family language. — Richard Rodriguez

You tell others about Me - that I am a loving God. Your words are glib. My words are written in the blood of My only Son. — Brennan Manning

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. — George Santayana

Because while she might be able to feign timidity within the confines of isolation, out here - amid chaos, destruction - I knew she'd become something entirely different. I was just waiting. Every day, patiently waiting for her to understand the breadth of her own potential; never realizing I'd entrusted her to the one soldier who might take her away from me.
I should shoot myself for it. — Tahereh Mafi

To be honest with you, I walked into media day (in February at Daytona), and there were two people standing in line to conduct interviews, so from day one of this year, everybody's kind of written us off. — Kevin Harvick

TWENTY I BATTLE MY JERK RELATIVE — Rick Riordan

In the euro area the fight for survival has become a battle between politicians and arithmetic. — Mervyn King

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. — Ronnie Barker

All morning the
Morning has been blackening,
A flower left out.
My bones hold a stillness, the far
Fields melt my heart.
They threaten
To let me through to a heaven
Starless and fatherless, a dark water. — Sylvia Plath

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. — Henry Knox