Page 216 Quotes & Sayings

When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision. — Nick Cassavetes

Okay, Kylie had put her foot in her mouth before, but she'd never had it in there so deep she felt her toes wiggling against her tonsils. — C.C. Hunter

You have to dream big and go for it. Surround yourself with people who believe in you and ignore those who try to bring you down. Never give up, no matter what - overcoming obstacles makes you stronger! — Shannon MacMillan

Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking. — Nicola Griffith

From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up. — Louis Bourdaloue

If you're afraid you can't write, the answer is to write. Every sentence you construct adds weight to the balance pan. If you're afraid of what other people will think of your efforts, don't show them until you write your way beyond your fear. If writing a book is impossible, write a chapter. If writing a chapter is impossible, write a page. If writing a page is impossible, write a paragraph. If writing a paragraph is impossible, write a sentence. If writing even a sentence is impossible, write a word and teach yourself everything there is to know about that word and then write another, connected word and see where their connection leads. — Richard Rhodes

My father always said that it is a reasonable expectation of life that no one will go out of his way, against his own interest, to break his word or to hurt another person. And this turns out, not just in obvious cases, for example haters, pathological people and institutions, sadists, but in everyday life itself to be plain untrue. I wonder why. A reasonable expectation of life, I have found, is hardly ever quite borne out. — Renata Adler

One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11. — Mike Johanns

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship. — Shiv Khera

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. — Howard Zinn

Some nigga's jobs is to be in the front not because they're better, but because they play a different position, but that don't make us better than somebody who's playing the back. — Sasha Ravae

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey. — Sylvester Stallone

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen. — Alanis Morissette

That's the psychopath: somebody who doesn't understand what's going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened." But — Jon Ronson

This idea that the person who kisses you first gets, with that kiss, a little piece of your soul. And they have a hold over you. Most people don't ever use it against you. But some people do. — Morgan Matson

The truth will always have a market. — Jean Shepherd

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold. — Michael Jackson