Sneetches And Other Stories Quotes & Sayings

Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick. — Ursula K. Le Guin

We are all what our pasts have made us," Catarina said. "The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we've been. — Cassandra Clare

The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed. — Bartolome De Las Casas

Because the truth wouldn't be comforting and wouldn't bring them closer again. — Ann Brashares

On the eve of our marriage, there might have been good reason to really ask, "What is marriage?" Is it the impression and expectation that this man can make me happy - can be a savior that helps me forget the tragedy of my parents' failed relationship as well as my own as his child? What is certain is that marriage was not to be a commitment or covenant. — H. Kirk Rainer

When fatigue finally forced him to pause, he ordered the men who were left to have their hearts torn out and their carcasses burned — Geoffrey Of Monmouth

Through the grace of God,I'm a victor not a victim. — Christy Barritt

A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day. — Ingrid Newkirk

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for ... — Mark Steyn

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope,
That star on life's tremulous ocean. — Thomas Moore

Wisdom is learning what to overlook. — William James

He must have felt a surge as he pulled away out of my mouth careful not to come too early and ruin the rest of his playtime. — Nicci Greene

What we see here (and in our lives) is that love inspires what the law demands - the law prescribes good works, but only grace can produce them. Gratitude, generosity, honesty, compassion, acts of mercy, and self-sacrifice (all requirements of the law) spring unsummoned from a forgiven heart. This is how God works on us. He picks us, the least deserving, out of the crowd, insists upon being in a relationship with us, and creates in us a new heart, miraculously capable of pleasing Him. — Tullian Tchividjian

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time. — Jose Saramago