Sadie Jasper Quotes & Sayings

I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision. — Roy Blunt

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch. — Peter Kropotkin

Any unrest and any strife can be borne, as I have already said, if we find peace where we live; but if we would have rest from the thousand trials which afflict us in the world and the Lord is pleased to prepare such rest for us, and yet the cause of the trouble is in ourselves, the result cannot but be very painful, indeed almost unbearable. — Teresa Of Avila

It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship. — John Cheever

That would be showing him a part of her soul, a part of her mind, that she's never risked showing anyone. The raw and squirming part that indifferent high-school counselor were always prying at, the part therapists tried to trick her into showing them for free, the part her parents hated her for. The light and the darkness behind her eyes. The soft places. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class. — Elizabeth Warren

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege. — William J. Clinton

Making a story from the messy thoughts and half-thoughts in her head, building a world and lives and taking them apart again, fitting the pieces together another way until it feels right, as right as she can make it feel. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.' — Anna Letitia Barbauld

Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change. — Atul Gawande

A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart. — Klaus Schwab

When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom. — Hippocrates

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die. — George Eliot

The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring. — John Bradshaw

Which was why the Sadducees in particular were so infuriated with this sect, Ezra realized. The Sadducees were convinced the afterlife did not exist at all. Man lived, man died. The candle was snuffed out. Finished. A very Greek philosophy, it was one that found favor only with the highly educated, the rich, the well traveled. The average Judean despised the Sadducees for this and for how they had allied themselves with the Romans. — Janette Oke

But you are wise,
Or else you love not, for to be wise and love
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above. — William Shakespeare

The long nub end of afternoon spent at her keyboard, her hands moving so much slower than her racing mind, The frustrating lag between her thoughts and the hunt and peck; a hot flood of ideas where there had been months of trickling, uncertain sentences, and Sadie trying to keep up with herself, wishing she'd taken typing in high school, scared that this inspiration would grow restless, impatient with her, and slink back to whatever hole it crawled out of. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Men and men, men and women, whatever the permutation, in the end one partner usually feels more than the other and that partner usually suffers for it. — John Connolly

Her words, her jumbled, mad thoughts tamed or simply broken, made language, and she took another drag off the Lucky, exhaled, and read the last sentence aloud. — Caitlin R. Kiernan