Manthana Quotes & Sayings

Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her ... chest.'
Iggy drew in a hissing breath.
It's gonna stain for sure,' the Gasman said. 'That's chocolate.'
Hmm,' Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin. — James Patterson

Better a dry crust of bread with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. — King David

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence. — Zadie Smith

To be a parent, especially to rock & roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth. You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild. — Ozzy Osbourne

The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense. — John Scalzi

Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy. — Martha Beck

There is no basis to say I'm being coy about running for president. If I chose to explore the presidency, I wouldn't do it in a backward way. I'll say, 'I'm exploring the presidency.' — Mario Cuomo

To carry a light on Earth is to represent the Sun on earth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course. — Anne Lamott

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time. — Alan Hirsch

If a woman's heart is in God's hand,
you cannot get it unless you please Him. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink. — Jim Slattery

I appreciate how impossible it is to convey an adequate realization of the office of President. A few short paragraphs in the Constitution of the United States describe all his fundamental duties. Various laws passed over a period of nearly a century and a half have supplemented his authority. All of his actions can be analyzed. All of his goings and comings can be recited. The details of his daily life can be made known. The effect of his policies on his own country and on the world at large can be estimated. His methods of work, his associates, his place of abode, can all be described. But the relationship created by all these and more, which constitutes the magnitude of the office, does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can only be experienced it cannot be told. — Calvin Coolidge

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked — Meg Rosoff

That first phrase-please bless me, Father, for I have sinned-was so humbling and so total, Matt always felt a kind of absolution as soon as he said it — Patricia McCormick