Nikeata Thompsons Birthplace Quotes & Sayings

I once read that love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it's the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. I think marriage is like that. Like my father said, the things of greatest value are the things we fight for. And in the end, if we do it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom — Richard Paul Evans

I find it most offensive that the character of Reason, whom [Jean den Meun (author of the Romance of the Rose)] himself calls the daughter of God, should put forth such a statement as ... where she says by way of a proverb that "in the war of Love it is better to deceive than be deceived." And indeed I dare say that in making that statement Jean den Meun's Reason denied her Father, for the doctrine He gave was altogether different. — Christine De Pizan

Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest. — Kenneth Eade

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright. — Beth Henley

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views. — Andrew Bird

Hail the victorious dead! — J.R.R. Tolkien

A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the world as it unfolded for characters of the time - with outcomes uncertain. — Del Quentin Wilber

Cell division allows us as organisms to grow, to adapt, to recover, to repair - to live. And distorted and unleashed, it allows cancer cells to grow, to flourish, to adapt, to recover, and to repair - to live at the cost of our living. Cancer cells grow faster, adapt better. They are more perfect versions of ourselves. — Anonymous

Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?. — Charles Spurgeon