Sophye Quotes & Sayings

Oh, it's ridiculous. I ought to laugh. But I can't. You won't believe it."
"Of course we will," Sophye said.
"He offered you a carte blanche," Leonie said.
"No, he asked me to marry him."
There was a short stunned silence.
Then, "I reckon he's in a marrying mood," Sophy said. — Loretta Chase

If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives! — David O. McKay

For six days I didn't get up except to make a cup of tea, or fry an egg, or lie in the skinny bath gazing at a cracked ceiling. The days punished me with their slowness, piling up the hours on me, spreading their joylessness about the room.
A doctor would have said I was suffering from depression. Everything I have read since suggests this was the case. But when you are in the grip of something like that it doesn't usefully announce itself. No. what happens is you sit in a dark, dark cave, and you wait. If you are lucky there is a pinprick of light, and if you are especially lucky that pinprick will grow larger and larger, until one day the cave appears to slip behind, and just like that you find yourself in daylight and free. This is how it happened for me. — Lloyd Jones

For our age-old enemies await us always, just beyond our thin walls. Hunger, thirst, and cold lie waiting there, and forever among us are those who would loot, rape, and maim rather than behave as civilized men.
If we sit secure this hour, this day, it is because the thin walls of the law stand between us and evil. A jolt of the earth, a revolution, an invasion or even a violent upset in our own government can reduce all to chaos, leaving civilized man naked and exposed. — Louis L'Amour

The first contact between people and a being from another planet took place under unusual circumstances: with an armed and ready gun, in silence, in the presence of Christianity and Islam, and the inability to communicate. — Ivan Lutz

If you acquaint yourself with yourself, you don't always like the person you find inside. — Ellen Hopkins

When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardour and that illumination. — Albert Camus

Believe that God discarded you if you want to, fate or destiny or whatever, but at least know they loved you ... — Isaac Marion

You can be passionate about anything. — Jerry Seinfeld

Can you picture my prophecy? — Tupac Shakur

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. — Virginia Woolf

My concern is not the fact that other people don't understand where I am coming from, even though Christians are supposed to be doing what I am doing — Sunday Adelaja

Old men keep sending young men off to kill or be killed in foreign lands while they spew their platitudes about duty and honor and freedom and loyalty, and all the while the gap between the rich and the poor in our own country continues to widen and jobs get shipped overseas and education continues to falter and it seems to me that all of this killing and being killed comes down to one thing. Greed. — Scott Pratt

It seemed better to delay thinking. — Charles Bukowski

The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust. — Edgar Hilsenrath

Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist. — Victor Frederick Weisskopf