Promises That Make You Stagger Quotes & Sayings

Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack. — Ezra Miller

There's a growing body of evidence that meditation actually reduces cortisol and promotes better health. — Charles G. Jefferson

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters. — Richard Roxburgh

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World. — Barbara Amiel

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs. — Avicenna

It is my belief ... that the truth is generally preferable to lies. — J.K. Rowling

Liesel was sure her mother carried the memory of him, slung over her shoulder. She dropped him. She saw his feet and legs and body slap the platform. — Markus Zusak

When someone is trapped in a burning building, you don't try to work out what caused the fire and then decide whether the people inside get your sympathy. When people are in danger of burning up, you rush to save them. Especially if you remember how much it hurts to be burned. — Christine Caine

That her son had developed all the latent characteristics of a three-dollar bill escaped her notice - all she knew was that she was glad he lived in Birmingham because he was oppressively devoted to her, which meant that she felt obliged to make an effort to reciprocate, which she could not with any spontaneity do. — Harper Lee

As he played on, the energy magnified; the tuning fork going crazy now, firing off vibrations all over, until my entire body was humming, until I was left breathless. And when I felt like I could not take it one more minute, the swirl of sensations hit a dizzying crescendo, sending every nerve ending in my body on high alert. — Gayle Forman

All you will get from me is death. — Patrick DeWitt

For this is the cause why we be not all in ease of heart and soul: that we seek here rest in those things that are so little, wherein is no rest, and know not our God that is All-mighty, All-wise, All-good. For He is the Very Rest. God willeth to be known, and it pleaseth Him that we rest in Him; for all that is beneath Him sufficeth not us. And this is the cause why that no soul is rested till it is made nought [29] as to all things that are made. When it is willingly made nought, for love, to have Him that is all, then is it able to receive spiritual rest. — Julian Of Norwich

The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort. — Robert Kiyosaki

[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals. — Muriel Beadle

While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories. — Timothy Keller