Preloaded Quotes & Sayings

I turn my head and stare out the casement window at the royal gardens instead, wet and slippery and dark as the center of a body, where the roses twitch an extinguished red. — Alexandra Kleeman

If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself. — Charlotte Sophia Kasl

I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. — Erinn Hayes

All the beauty that's been lost before wants to find us again — U2

But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping. — Ann Voskamp

Two men look out through the same bars. One sees the mud and the other the stars. — Frederick Longbridge

When your perspective is preloaded with the Word of God, lies lose their power over your life. — Steven Furtick

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. — Lao-Tzu

Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can't choose the consequences of your choices. They're preloaded. It's a package deal. — Sean Covey

Two things, generally, for me, is what life is about. And they're not funny. Living in the moment, is one. And No. 2 is getting out of yourself and helping other people. Because all of my suffering stems from thinking from myself. — Bobby Lee

Anyone should be able to read comics. — Ted Rall

Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood. — David Koechner

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. — Henry David Thoreau

What great changes have not been ambitious? — Melinda Gates

The gadget had come with The New Oxford American Dictionary preloaded. You only had to begin typing your word and the Kindle found it for you. It was, he thought, TiVo for bookworms. — Stephen King

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate. — Jeffrey Kluger

I've always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going on, my career kept me busy - and I had not stopped to become a mommy. — Kym Whitley

I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look. — Gwendoline Christie