Polacas Lindas Quotes & Sayings

Of rhythm is image/ of image is knowing/ of knowing there is/ a construct — Charles Olson

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one ... — Ruth Rendell

The test of character posed by the gentleness of God's approach to us is especially dangerous for those formed by the ideas that dominate our modern world. We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you doubt. The fashion of the age has identified mental sharpness with a pose, not with genuine intellectual method and character. Only a very hardy individualist or social rebel
or one desperate for another life
therefore stands any chance of discovering the substantiality of the spiritual life today. Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright. — Dallas Willard

One morsel of God's provision, especially when it comes in unexpectedly, and upon prayer, when wants are most, will be more sweet — John Flavel

I didn't actually get along with my dad when I was growing up, so by the time I was in my 20s, I didn't think I was going to be a writer. — Brian Herbert

On the first day of fifth grade, Liz was sitting on the swing beside Liam's at recess. Falling and flying, her hair fanned out behind her and her eyes were closed, and that was what had caught his attention, her closed eyes. She looked a little bit silly and very much alive, and Liam couldn't stop watching.

Liz, on her part, was aware that the boy beside her was watching, but she loved swinging too much to care what he thought. She loved the wind hitting her face and the brief moment of suspension at the top of the arc and the falling sensation that was magnified by the darkness of her eyelids. She imagined that she was a bird, an angel, a wayward star.

At the height of the arc, she let go. And she flew.

Liam watched with his mouth hanging wide open, expecting her to crumple on the asphalt and die tragically before his eyes.

She didn't, and when she walked away, Liam's heart followed. — Amy Zhang

I like very minimal stuff. I'm a tomboy at heart - and in body! — Rosa Salazar

Dear Abby has had her day, now it's my turn! — Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage. — Mao Zedong

The vamps had plans to make for the trip? Well, so did she. Backups for when their plans went to hell and her plans were all they had left. — D.B. Reynolds

Often when she thought she was reading his body — Greg Egan

Friedrich Bischinger, has gained notoriety by recommending that kids eat their boogers to help strengthen their immune systems. — Cary McNeal

To copy is to invite disaster. — W. Edwards Deming

Happily ever after is not a place: It's a state of being, and you have to work at it every day. — Gwendolyn Heasley