Ophie Quotes & Sayings

I want to go out like a Champion, I want to be carried out — James J. Braddock

She returned to him, pressed his cheeks in her hands. "My eccentric old man, thinking you could fly."
"This time, only my words will fly," he said solemnly. They both cracked up. Almost twenty years together and if blazing heat had turned to warmth, humor, it was less wild but easier to sustain. — Lauren Groff

We ate in fret-filled silence until Ophie said, "Okay, enough of that feeling down in the dumps. We are going to put on our best clothes and go to church. We will sing. We will praise the Lord. We will celebrate Miss Delia's life. So you two put a smile on your faces. Well-mannered ladies know that a funeral provides us the opportunity to comfort the living. There'll be plenty of time to mourn the dead for years to come." I — Terrie Farley Moran

Yana," he said gravely, "you must learn the basic lesson that those who have power will use it, and those who don't must learn to control those who do. You — Kate Elliott

The astonishing paradox of Christ's teaching and of Christian experience is this: if we lose ourselves in following Christ, we actually find ourselves. True self-denial is self-discovery. To live for ourselves is insanity and suicide; to live for God and for man is wisdom and life indeed. We do not begin to find ourselves until we have become willing to lose ourselves in the service of Christ and of our fellows. — John R.W. Stott

Behind every stylish guy is usually a smart girl. — Elizabeth Eulberg

There's nothing worse than being bored with a boring man. — Antoine Laurain

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer. — Niccolo Machiavelli

No matter how hard we may try, we can only travel forward. The relativistic laws guarantee it. — Kip S. Thorne

She pulls me toward her, tells me, "You're sweet, you know that?" I crack a smile. Life will not tear us apart this
time. Our hearts will see to it. — Pete Wentz

The sea stretched to the edge of the sky, overwhelming, and liberating, and soothing all at once. — Christie Anderson