Stacy Adams Quotes & Sayings

Jeff leaned his head down so that his forehead touched Tim's forehead. "This can't end well."
"What does?" Tim asked. "That's the problem with life: it always ends, and it ends badly. — Ben Tousey

Translation, it read: But you will not even need to fight. Take your positions; then stand still and watch the LORD's victory. He is with you, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or discouraged. Go out against them tomorrow, for the LORD is with you! — Stacy Hawkins Adams

In that moment, she knew she would take the coward's way out, — Stacy Hawkins Adams

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change. — Stacy Schiff

Can I really do this? — Stacy Hawkins Adams

I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball. — Moses Malone

The door wasn't closing. Shiloh's spirit opened up as she considered the possibilities. — Stacy Hawkins Adams

No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if no one else knew they were dirty. — Stacy Hawkins Adams

STG - his acronym for Simply Trust God. The idea — Stacy Hawkins Adams

The key is to figure out how God can effectively use you where you're planted now, regardless of how you got there. — Stacy Hawkins Adams

What's she like?' Archie repeated softly. He put his hand on the trooper's shoulder and leaned forward, so his face was inched from his. Gretchen was a beautiful, sensual, charismatic, manipulative bitch, the object of Archie's sexual obsession, his torturer, and the person who knew him best in the world. 'She's a serial killer,' Archie said. He smiled and gave the trooper's shoulder an avuncular pat. 'If you ever lay eyes on her, shoot her.'
Archie turned to Henry. 'I'm ready to go back to the loony bin,' he said — Chelsea Cain

You couldn't really tell people you weren't out performing your civic duties because you were too busy raising the dead. — Lish McBride

Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage. — Stacy Peralta

There are no absolutes.' 'I think there are,' said Sidney. 'Fairness, justice, toleration, support for the weak, care for those in need, truth and love. — James Runcie

Honesty is the most talked about, the most desired but, at same time, one of the rarest qualities in present day world. — Abhishek Ratna

I'm used to a very busy schedule. Right now it revolves around training and preparing for Nationals in January. I'm usually at the rink from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. and then I attend public school for two hours, three times per week. — Sasha Cohen

It was as a result of his courage that two white men were on trial for killing a Negro, a trial in which, whatever the result, there is a kind of majesty. And we owe that sight to Mose Wright, who was condemned to bow all his life, and had enough left to raise his head and look the enemy in those terrible eyes when he was sixty-four. — Robert A. Caro

Be thoughtful and strategic, but also be open to blessings arriving in unexpected forms. — Stacy Hawkins Adams

There is no healing without hope. Despair is life's direst enemy. Despair is living death. — Penelope Wilcock

If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same. — Stacy Hawkins Adams

She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean? — Stacy Hawkins Adams

Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm a dirty kid: I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster. I was obsessed with Dogtown - I still am obsessed with Dogtown, the Z-Boys. I love Stacy Peralta and Jay Adams and Andrew Reynolds, all these guys. I used to think I was Chad Muska. — Jamie Campbell Bower

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work. — Stacy Hawkins Adams

You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music. — Jimmy Webb

Look at me and tell me it meant nothing to you, and I will let you go. — Sylvain Reynard

We are like those oysters in many ways ... Irritants, or foreign objects, infiltrate our lives in the form of bad choices, jealousy, fear, deep loss, and countless other challenges I could name. We choose how to handle things that come, either by rallying our strength and faith and finding a way to go on, or by giving into the pressure and giving up.
When we choose to stand up inside and protect our spirits, our hearts, and the essence of who we are, we produce a substance similar to what the oyster produces to form the layers of the pearl. In us, it's called character, integrity, grace, courage, and the ability to love ourselves and others, with no strings attached. — Stacy Hawkins Adams

You never know what the wind will blow your way, baby; you've just got to be prepared to dance to the music God provides. — Stacy Hawkins Adams

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its) - Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world - a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious - surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity. — Walt Whitman

'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that. — Kaitlyn Dever

Now, where were we?" he said. "Oh, yes. We were about to have some honest conversation. Roadkill, are you in love with Hawk?"
Roadkill sighed and asked plaintively, "Can't we just go back to prison? — Agatha Bird