Nightmare Before Christmas Doctor Finklestein Quotes & Sayings

Looking for someone to value what you have, will keep you coming up empty. — E'yen A. Gardner

It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned. — Ranbir Kapoor

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice. — Tom Hodgkinson

I believe I met my mother there, in the final instant. Not her ghost but some vaster portion of her, her self boundlessly recharged beneath the water. Her courage. In the cave I think she must have lent me some of it, because the strength I felt then was as huge as the sun. The yellow inside you that makes you want to live. I believe that she was the pulse and bloom that forced me toward the surface. — Karen Russell

Jesus' freedom is not the freedom of the liberal. It is the freedom of the Son, and thus the freedom of the truly devout person. As Son, Jesus brings a new freedom: not the freedom of someone with no obligations, but the freedom of someone totally united with the Father's will, someone who helps mankind to attain the freedom of inner oneness with God. — Pope Benedict XVI

Half the battle is just showing up. — Stephen Hawking

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us. — Pope Francis

Modern families are complicated things. Siblings, half siblings, stepparents, stepcousins, what have you. You can't pick who you're born to, that's for sure. — Cherie Priest

To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness. — Ludwig Feuerbach

By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky. — John Ramsay

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray. — Martin Luther

I frowned. Evidently, Sangris wasn't a cat who could shape-shift. It was more difficult than that. He was a nothing who occasionally pretended to be a cat. "I wish I could know what it's like for myself, that's all," I said. I felt rather the way a jail inmate would if a bird flew up and shouted through her window bars: This freedom thing? Yeah, not so great. — Rinsai Rossetti

You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe. — Jonathan Tropper

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable. — Wess Stafford