Portends In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

Everybody has a need for their past, Bosch thought. Sometimes it pulls harder on you than the future. — Michael Connelly

Give them your brains, girl, never your guts. — Nora Roberts

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past. — A.R. Rahman

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. — Sara Teasdale

The Government, Church and television keep the average man so mired in petty concerns that he can no longer discern which battles are worth fighting for. — J. Nozipo Maraire

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing. — Bobby Bonilla

If I was president, of course I'd want an amendment banning boy bands, but it just wouldn't be right, and I wouldn't do it. Then again ... I don't want to paint myself into a corner on this one. Let me think about it. — Jessi Klein

No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public. — Jerry Seinfeld

It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of my imagination, which I could not see because there was no light. I could not see, but I dared not close my eyes lest the darkness crawl beneath my eyelids and suffocate me. I could only hear. My ears became my being and I could hear the specks of life that crawled beneath my clothing, the rotting of the great tree which rose from its three-cornered trunk above me. I could hear the darkness gathering against me and the silences that lay between the moving things. — Robert Leckie

What you loved was the idea of rescuing me. You didn't really love me then, and you don't really love me now. — Robert Fisher

Do not to take everything personally or so seriously, because sometimes you're just not right for a particular job. You have to be able to take rejection quickly and honestly, know what you need to work on, and move on. — Kellee Stewart

My husband is a martial artist, and he thinks it's hilarious that I have a stage-fighting-proficiency certificate. He thinks that's ridiculous. Can't say I've used it much. — Lesley Nicol

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent. — Meg Wolitzer

As C. S. Lewis observed, "All that is not eternal is eternally useless." The Bible says, "We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."12 — Rick Warren

Sometimes there are people who only meditate with a teacher. They ride the teacher's energy. They don't really learn how to meditate. They learn how to ride the energy. — Frederick Lenz