Njjta Quotes & Sayings

Grace to me is a little bit of extra help when you're feeling stuck or doomed or, probably, hopefully, out of good ideas on how to save yourself, and how to salvage the situation or the friendship or the whatever it is," Anne Lamott once told me. "I wish it was accompanied by harp music so you could know that's what was happening, but for me it's that extra pause or that extra breath or that extra minute's patience against all odds." On that first trip to Ireland, grace - the kick-in-the-pants, clarifying, cosmic-pause-button kind of grace - didn't just have a harp. It had an entire soundtrack ... — Cathleen Falsani

A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader's mind gave it life. — Elizabeth Langston

We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context. — Frederick Lenz

I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things. — John Brandon

Your background should not dictate the rest of your life ; there is success in continuity. — Osunsakin Adewale

Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss. — Paulo Coelho

She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart. — John Dufresne

If we are not growing together, then we should not stay together. — Nyki Edwinna

Damn and blast British Telecom, shouted Dirk, the words coming easily from force of habit. — Douglas Adams

The Prime Minister keeps me on around here because I make him look good. — Tony Benn