Sampley Barinaga Quotes & Sayings

How come I believe in God? I guess its's because some things are too incredible for people to take all the credit. (pg. 350) — Jodi Picoult

He used to watch NBC until he decided Brian Williams was a good-natured goof who's too fond of YouTube videos. — Stephen King

Anyone who is not totally dead to himself will soon find that he is tempted and overcome by piddling and frivolous things. Whoever is weak in spirit, given to the flesh and inclined to sensual things can, but only with great difficulty, drag himself away from his earthly desires. Therefore he is often gloomy and sad when he is trying to pull himself away from them, and easily gives way to anger should someone attempt to oppose him. — Thomas A Kempis

I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity. — Pope Francis

Love
My soul was a light-blue gown, sky-coloured;
I left it on a cliff by the sea
and naked I came to you, resembling a woman.
And like a woman I sat at your table
and drank a toast with wine and breathed in the scent of several roses.
You found me beautiful, resembling something you'd seen dreaming,
I forgot everything, I forgot my childhood and my homeland,
I knew only that your caresses held me captive.
And, smiling, you took up a mirror and bade me look.
I saw that my shoulders were made of dust and crumbled away,
I saw that my beauty was sick and had no desire other than to - disappear.
Oh, hold me close in your arms, so tightly that I need nothing. — Edith Sodergran

Its not a dead end if it takes you some were you needed to go. — Joe Bradford

My dad says it's all right if people make fun of you. You know what he said to me? He said, 'Dante, you're an intellectual. That's who you are. Don't be ashamed of that. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Something just flashes into your mind, so exciting, and you must out with it. If you stop to think it over, you spoil it all. — L.M. Montgomery

I'm somebody who, as a child, had a lot of insecurity about stable housing, where I was going to be living, if I was going to have a roof over my head, all those types of things. And I know the impact it can have on you psychologically and emotionally. — Jewel