Newadult Quotes & Sayings

Aragorn, the greatest traveller and huntsman of this age of the world. Together — J.R.R. Tolkien

You are the most confusing woman I've ever met. — Jamie McGuire

The problem with fear-based Christianity is we only obey when the fear is there. If you only want to obey God when you feel threatened by his commands, it's not God you worship, but your fear. — Jefferson Bethke

The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [ ... ] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [ ... ] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire ... to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes. — Charles Baudelaire

To be fully human is ... to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other. — Oprah Winfrey

Maybe I'd lost something. Maybe I'd lost a lot - more, even, than I could suffer - but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn't no force on Earth or from above what could make me less. — J.D. Jordan

In his imagination he performed the 'composition of place' reconstructing the scene from what he could remember of the classics, so laboriously and unprofitably rammed into his head at Harrow. — Dion Fortune

It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks. — Pat Morita

Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things apart. The complementary arts of integration are far less well developed. This problem is at the core of human ecology. As with any interdisciplinary pursuit, it is the bridging across disparate ways of knowing that is the constant challenge. — Richard J. Borden

Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.' — Sandra Bullock

I want to strangle my husband and slam the door as I leave. I want to leave a box of pasta on the counter with a note that says, cook your own dinner and suck your own dick. — Pella Grace

I grew up in a generation when there was no soccer on TV. — Tim Howard

As many of you know, I am not very fond of the human race. However, I will not let them die by the hands of our species nor any other. For thousands of years, we've walked this earth in peace with them, and a war is not in the best interest of either party. It'll only create suffering and tragedy on both sides. We can't allow this to happen. Our only option is to find him and kill him. — Christine Gabriel

I'd like to see anyone do what I do for one week. — GG Allin

Her giggles were light in my darkness. — Shana Vanterpool

For six years, from age nineteen until I turned twenty-five, I did not sleep uninterrupted through a single night ... I felt lucky to get my shoes on the right feet ... I moved forward only, thinking each morning anew that we were leaving the worst behind. — Barbara Kingsolver

What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside. — Iyanla Vanzant

'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head. — Sean Penn