Secret Santa Guessing Quotes & Sayings

I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place, reciting the incantation. It was the magic of forgetting. — Francesca Lia Block

But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying. — David Foster Wallace

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract. — Dennis Prager

Sometimes a shadow rises, and death lies nameless in the dark. — Diana Gabaldon

Do you feel better?" I asked Sam as he opened the door to the Volkswagen for me.
"Yes," he said. He was still a terrible liar.
"Good," I said. I was still a fantastic one. — Maggie Stiefvater

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet. — William Penn

Don't talk to me about people who are nice, 'cause I've spent my whole life in ruins over people who are nice. — Morrissey

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother. — Joel McCrea

Living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely. — Sandra Tsing Loh

What if the rat returns? I donna think ye'd want to be lying flat on the pallet if he does."
She swatted at him. "That's why I have you and my dagger to protect me."
"Me, aye. Your dagger, nae so much. — Victoria Roberts

Courage is saying maybe what I'm doing isn't working, maybe I should try something else. — Anna Lappe

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house. — Barbara Corcoran

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning. — Hermann Hesse

One way to describe this problem is to say that when these people "receive Christ," they do not receive him as supremely valuable. — John Piper