Streulens Quotes & Sayings

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that. — Marilyn Hacker

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you. — Budd Schulberg

To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet. — Wilbur Smith

I have been in love already, but I don't think I have ever really loved somebody. Love is a very rare and beautiful thing, but it can also be bitter if the other one doesn't love you back. — Tom Kaulitz

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day. — John F. Kennedy

He had his one life. In June 1942 he went to Lazarevo holding it in his hands. By the shores of the Kama, he found her gorgeous and restored, and not just restored to her original shining brilliance but enlarged and clarified. Light reflected off her, no matter which way she turned. They ran down to the almighty river. She never even looked back. She would never know what it meant to him, an unremitting sinner, after all the unsacred things he had seen and done, to have her innocence. He held her to him. He had dreamed of it too long, touching her. Dreamed of seeing her naked too long, beautiful, bare, ready for him. He was afraid to hurt her. He had never been with an untouched girl before; he wasn't sure if he was supposed to do something first. In the end, he did nothing first, but she baptized him with her body. There was no Alexander anymore; the man he knew had died and was reborn inside a perfect heart, given to him straight from God, to him and for him. — Paullina Simons

True victory is victory over oneself. — Morihei Ueshiba

Unzipping that body bag didn't bother me," Ranger said, "but I'm going to have nightmares over this casino. — Janet Evanovich

Like many doctors, I was frankly traumatized by some of the experiences I had early on in my career. When you lean over a patient in an emergency room, trying to bring a dead body back to life, you are entirely focused on the job at hand. On the other side of a thin curtain, you can hear that person's husband or wife howling and wailing, knowing that the person they loved and lived with for fifty years is dying, begging the staff to do all they can, phoning their children, struggling to speak through tears to form the words and communicate the horror, telling them to come, quickly. I have memories from cubicles that I will never be able to deal with, and they upset me even now. — Ben Goldacre

And as the room grows dark, I wonder at how we humans are born to pain, experience it constantly, and yet never learn the techniques of dodging it. We just learn to cope, to live. And some of us, if we are lucky enough, to thrive, in spite of it all. — Alice J. Wisler

If someone's opinion of you goes from sky-high to rock bottom, this isn't normal. — Jackson MacKenzie

I look like this because I'm alive," Reagan said. "Because I've had experiences. Do you understand? — Rainbow Rowell

Story-selling is the secret to successful brand selling — Bernard Kelvin Clive