Melissa Ziegler Quotes & Sayings

Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present. — Danielle LaPorte

The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences. — Nelson Algren

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It's you who makes me a person. — Ann Brashares

2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no standstill in a world filled with so many people, scrambling for so much. — Roxane Gay

Terrorism requires only a few. Obviously, the West must defend itself by whatever means will be effective. But in devising means to fight the terrorists, it would surely be useful to understand the forces that drive them. — Bernard Lewis

Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards. — Greg Louganis

The greatest fighter I ever saw — Gene Tunney

Have you ever wondered what a witness is? It's someone who has died, who lives in heaven and watches over the lives of those she loved. That's what I do. I watch you. I cheer you on. I hurt when you hurt. — Gena Showalter

What does Resistance feel like? First, unhappiness. We feel like hell. A low-grade misery pervades everything. We're bored, we're restless. We can't get no satisfaction. There's guilt but we can't put our finger on the source. We want to go back to bed; we want to get up and party. We feel unloved and unlovable. We're disgusted. We hate our lives. We hate ourselves. — Steven Pressfield

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president. — Ted Cruz

As an actor I've played a lot of gloomy, romantic leads and even though I might not want to recognize it, I actually really have a sense of humor. — Louis Garrel

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations. — Logan Pearsall Smith

A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes. — C. D. Broad

There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these are books for adults. Actually, they're just stories, and if they're good stories, then they surpass those boundaries. — L.A. Weatherly