Melanie Martinex Quotes & Sayings

It was one of those simple facts of life: the sky was blue, gravity kept our feet firmly on the ground, and I loved Katie Weber." ~ Jamie — Catherine Gayle

Bob and Maria's kids, now grown and in high school and college, each have a quiet dignity and confidence. They also have an informal charm. [...] It is obvious they'd played the roles in the story their family was living, the roles of foreign dignitaries, traveling with their parents on the important assignment of asking world leaders what they hope in. Their STORY had given them their CHARACTER.

I only say this about the children because I used to believe charming people were charming because they were charming, or confident people were confident because they were confident. But all of this is, of course, circular. The truth is, we are all living out the character of the roles we have played in our stories. — Donald Miller

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I took [Kate's] hand in mine, and felt her fingers squeeze back. And I thought: home. It took me completely by surprise. But I suppose that once you bid farewell to your first home, you're always looking for another - that place where you can feel happy and strong and at your best. For three years I'd called the Aurora home. But now that I lived in Paris, it was not the city itself that was home. It was Kate. — Kenneth Oppel

For a long while she only looked at him ... as if she didn't want to interrupt the beautiful moment with words. — Karen Kingsbury

War may make us great, but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free. — John C. Calhoun

Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save. — John Stott

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on. — Michael Chabon

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures. — Carolyn Heilbrun

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it — Philip Sidney

This is not a cut, Felix. I must go fix something."
"Why is it always your problem to fix, Ria?"
"Because I see that there is a problem when no one else does. — Gail Carriger