Sarai Quotes & Sayings

What I wanted was for him to want me, for him to touch me. He held my hand sometimes. Once I fell asleep next to him on the sofa, my cheek resting against his white T-shirt, and he put his arm around me. I wanted more than that--I wanted for him to kiss me. I wanted his want. — Sarai Walker

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. — William Samuel Johnson

Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals. — David A. Bednar

The reason for a woman's life," said Sarai, "is the same as the reason for a man's - so that she might have joy. — Orson Scott Card

After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive. — Douglas Coupland

The moment she entered the room where the man sat alone, waiting intensely, the thrill passed through her, she died in terror, and after the death, a great flame gushed up, obliterating her. — D.H. Lawrence

I am discipline. Sarai is rage. — J.A. Redmerski

All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass. — George Carlin

Who hides more than he gives. Who lies more that he tells the truth. — Alessandra Torre

That is true. But nevertheless, you are like the prisoners in the cave, your legs and necks shackled by your maps and your walls so that all you can see is the shadows thrown by the fire on the wall of the cave. You think they are the truth, but they are only a shadow of the truth, which lies - " He gestured to the sky and the plain and the distant spiral curl that was the growing city of Sarai. " - out here, under the gaze of the sun and the moon and the stars. — Kate Elliott

Aside from an intervention, which I don't think is on anybody's mind, Iraq is going to have defend for itself. — Doug Collins

Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power? — Will Oldham

Just when the womb gets too old for babies, Sarai gets pregnant. Just when the failure is too great for grace, David is pardoned. And just when the road is too dark for Mary and Mary, the angel glows and the Savior shows and the two women will never be the same. The lesson? Three words. Don't give up. — Max Lucado

For a brief moment the previous day, I'd felt a flicker of kinship with him because of my own barrenness, but he brandished his brokenness like a sword, ready to cut anyone who displeased him because someone in Pharaoh's household had once cut him. — Kristen Reed

I am not your hero. I am not the other half of your soul who could never let anything bad ever happen to you. -trust your instincs first always, and me, if you choose, last. — J.A. Redmerski

Sarai had treasured every stage of Rachel's childhood, enjoying the day-to-day normalcy of things; a normalcy which she quietly accepted as the best of life. She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal. — Dan Simmons

Try your best. That's always been good enough for the people who love you. — Seanan McGuire

The function of hate, as Sarai saw it, was to stamp out compassion - to close a door in one's own self and forget it was ever there. If you had hate, then you could see suffering - and cause it - and feel nothing except perhaps a sordid vindication. — Laini Taylor

I think it's a response to terrorism. From the time we're little girls, we're taught to fear the bad man who might get us. We're terrified of being raped, abused, even killed by the bad man, but the problem is, you can't tell the good ones from the bad ones, so you have to wary of them all. We're told not to go out by ourselves late at night, not to dress a certain way, not to talk to male strangers, not to lead men on. We take self-defense classes, keep our doors locked, carry pepper spray and rape whistles. The fear of men is ingrained in us from girlhood. Isn't that a form of terrorism? — Sarai Walker

I want her to look upon me, just for a moment. But she never does and I walk away. Sarai I feel like I should be like Cordelia, sitting next to me wide awake yet unaware of it herself. — J.A. Redmerski

I guess by default we're all the ones shaking our heads at the stupidity of others until we're forced into traumatic experiences ourselves. — J.A. Redmerski

Victor Faust did much more than help me escape a life of abuse and servitude. He changed me.
He changed the landscape of my dreams, the dreams I had every day about living ordinarily and free
and on my own. He changed the colors on the palette from primary to rainbow - as dark as the colors
of that rainbow may be. — J.A. Redmerski

The moon on a bracelet and the sun in a jar," said Sarai. "We really wreak havoc on the heavens, don't we?"
Lazlo's voice sank deeper in his throat. Smokier. Hungrier. "I expect the heavens will survive," he said, and then he kissed her. — Laini Taylor

Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac. — Lisabet Sarai

I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians' idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes. — Kristen Reed

Sol had not known he was lonely until he met Sarai. — Dan Simmons

I don't want to sleep alone, she says gently. And I don't force her to. Sarai falls fast asleep curled up next to me in my bed. Right where I want her. — J.A. Redmerski

I want the voice of developing countries to be stronger. — Li Keqiang

I go to the window of my top floor hotel room and gaze out, not at the glittering city, but at the stars fully awake in the early morning sky. And I see her, Izabel, Sarai, in every single one of them. And this is how I know, that because of her, because I see her in everything, I am not only a monster, but a man. — J.A. Redmerski

Sarai, you never know who might betray you until it's too late. — J.A. Redmerski

There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything. — J.A. Redmerski

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need. — Kathleen Hanna

What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for. — Rhonda Byrne

This goes against everything that I am, Sarai," he says and then kisses me. "No, it doesn't," I whisper and kiss him back. "It's you becoming more of who you really are. — J.A. Redmerski

I can do whatever I want, yet I find it eternally difficult to choose where to begin. Or if to begin at all. — J.A. Redmerski

yet that one thing - the color of their skin - would, in the real world, change everything. Sarai — Laini Taylor

Solovey will take me to the ends of the earth if I ask it. I am going into the world, Alyosha. I will be no one's bride, neither of man nor of God. I am going to Kiev and Sarai and Tsargrad, and I will look upon the sun on the sea. — Katherine Arden

At the house, the gathering broke up quickly. Sarai announced that she had a headache and needed to lie down. Without her to hold them together, the young nobles chose to go home. The gloss had been stripped from the afternoon. — Tamora Pierce

You made me feel real emotions. You unlocked me. — J.A. Redmerski

We can't hide it or fake it. We'll never fit society's idea for how women should look and behave, but why is that a tragedy? We're free to live how we want. It's liberating, if you choose to see it that way. — Sarai Walker

Agonies are one of my changes of garments. — Walt Whitman