Soinstead Quotes & Sayings

I wish I would have been there for you." He finally found his voice. "I wish I would have been there to beat up all the children who bullied you, to shoot your father dead the first time he broke one of your bones. I wish I would have been there to sweep you out of town and save you from the horrors you went through."
Her eyes widened in surprise and then immediately narrowed as she shook her head. "I didn't need to have a hero in my life, Mark. I needed to figure out how to be my own hero. I took the easy way out. I allowed small-town people to label me and then I did my very best to live up to the label they'd provided. It's taken me thirty-seven years to realize I don't need a hero. I'm all I need and I'm strong enough to build the rest of my life alone. — Carla Cassidy

Of all challenges, convincing dumb ones is the most difficult. Manipulation works better in such cases if your heart allows. — Ravindra Shukla

Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars? — James Murdoch

We need each other yet, we bleed each other of the very life we are all drowning in with one another... — The1Essence

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. — John Stuart Mill

At age twelve, when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard, he learned that a properly run company could spawn innovation far more than any single creative individual. I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company, — Walter Isaacson

Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient. — Fred Hoyle

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women - to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself. — Maxine Hong Kingston

The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure. — Napoleon Bonaparte

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody. — Natasha Lyonne

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity — Thomas Jefferson

And all babies were God's blessing, even those who said bugger quite a lot, and whose presence meant that half the potential wage earners in our family couldn't actually go and get a decent job. — Jojo Moyes

I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us
but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat
soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself. — Laurence Sterne