Ryken Concrete Quotes & Sayings

When love was perfect, it would always cast out fear. — Karen Kingsbury

Laughter has the remarkable power of making an object come up close, of drawing it into a zone of crude contact where one can finger it familiarly on all sides, turn it upside down, inside out, peer at it from above and below, break open its external shell, look into its center, doubt it, take it apart, dismember it, lay it bare and expose it, examine it freely and experiment with it. Laughter demolishes fear and piety before an object, before a world, making of it an object of familiar contact and thus clearing the ground for an absolutely free investigation of it. Laughter is a vital factor in laying down that prerequisite for fearlessness without which it would be impossible to approach the world realistically. — Mikhail Bakhtin

That means if you want to become strong, you become predictable. You keep your word, know and then honor your commitments, mind the details, invest in daily spiritual input, assume rather than avoid responsibility, admit your mistakes, correct your screw-ups, and keep a healthy watch over yourself. — Anonymous

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable. — Mason Cooley

Are ye all right, man? Ian asked, in the same tone of mild concern he'd heard his da use now and then on his mam or Uncle Jamie. Evidently it was in fact the right tone to take with a Fraser about to go berserk, for William breathed like a grampus for a moment or two, then got himself under control. — Diana Gabaldon

Share the heart of the Earth with humanity. Meaning mother earth and earth sprit. — Ilchi Lee

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building. — Michael Welch

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word. — Margaret Atwood

I'll obey you now," said Runnel.
Brick laughed. "Except when you think I'm wrong. — Orson Scott Card

his parents huffing after him; — Hanya Yanagihara