Michael Ehrmantraut Quotes & Sayings

As I looked at her there among the pumpkins I was overcome with the color and the intesity of my life. In these moments we are driven to try and hoard happiness by taking photographs, but I know better. The improtant thing was what the colors stood for, the taste of hard apples and the existence of Lena and the exact quality of the sun on the last warm day in October. A photograph would have flattened the scene into a happy moment, whereas what I felt was rapture. The fleeting certainty that I deserved this space I'd been taking up on this earth, and all the air I had breathed. — Barbara Kingsolver

Our persona was not created by accident; it was created in order to camouflage the parts of ourselves we deemed the most undesirable and to overcompensate for what we believe to be our deepest flaws. What persona are you hiding behind? — Debbie Ford

I think watching my mom gave me great inspiration, I wish that had been reinforced more verbally. It would have kept me from a lot of pain. — Viola Davis

Once upon a time, an author created a great story. — Erik Dean

A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write ... — Erwin Chargaff

Courage is the only Magic worth having. — Erica Jong

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees. — V.S. Pritchett

Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity. — Oswald Chambers

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice. — Confucius

Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the center of your heart filled with love. — Amit Ray

In the words of a pastor friend, "Christianity is less about holding on to God and more about God holding on to you. — Lori Hatcher