Minte-ma Frumos Quotes & Sayings

As she recited the names and facts, she was recovering not only her memory but also her personality, her desires, her way of seeing life. The idea of suicide, which that morning seemed to be buried beneath several layers of sedatives, resurfaced. — Paulo Coelho

I either write the books or sell the jewels , and I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels. — Ava Gardner

Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in the foolishness of pride, that our manifold blessings are due not to God's goodness, but to our own wisdom and virtue. Too many of us have been so drunk with self-sufficiency as no longer to feel the need of prayer. — Ezra Taft Benson

That's what a shrink is for; friends and neighbors; their job is to fuck the mentally disturbed and make them pregnant with sanity. — Stephen King

It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there. — Glenn Morrison

There is a loneliness that must be particular to monsters, I think, the feeling that each is the only child of a species. And now that loneliness was over. — Karen Russell

Whether we admit it or not, as people of faith, we sift our theology through Scripture, Church history and tradition, our reason, and our own experience. Most Christians, even the most committed of the sola scriptura crowd, use these four pillars
at varying degrees of importance and strength
to figure out the ways of God in our world and what it means here and now for our walking-around lives. And taking this a bit further into postmodern territory, we can also admit that we are relying on our own imperfect and subjective interpretations of those pillars, too. — Sarah Bessey

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. — Arnold Bennett

An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium. — Leonard Slatkin