Stripteasers Quotes & Sayings

He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here. — Eowyn Ivey

gate at the chain-link fence — Kent Haruf

There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary ... — Kathryn Stockett

Why do you worry without cause? Whom do you fear without reason? Who can kill you? The soul is neither born, nor does it die. — Nitin Agarwal

Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth. — Jackie Kessler

Honesty is a most dreadful quality - it makes people difficult to manipulate, — Ashwin Sanghi

He moved into the moonlight. That was no accident. He wanted me to see his eyes burning with fever, his skin flushed, hair sweat soaked. He wanted me to say, "Oh, you're Changing," leap out of bed, and insist on going outside with him, help him through it, a I had the last two times.
I looked at him and I lay back down.
He stepped froward. "Chloe.."
"What?"
"It's ... It's starting again."
"I see that."
I sat up, swung my legs out of bed, and stood. He breathed a sigh of relief. I walked to the window.
"Head down that path about thirty feet, and you'll find a clearing to the left. That should be a good place."
A spark of panic ignited in his eyes. After how he'd treated me today, I should have said "good." But i didn't. Couldn't. It took everything I had to just crawl back into bed. — Kelley Armstrong

The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not. — William Feather

I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw. — Bruno Mars

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too. — Paul Arden

Our situation was so desperate that only the death of His own Son on a cruel and shameful cross was sufficient to resolve the problem. — Jerry Bridges

I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running. — Robert Irvine

As members of the Lord's Church, we must take missionary work more seriously. The Lord's commission to 'preach the gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15) will never change in our dispensation. We have been greatly blessed with the material means, the technology, and an inspired message to bring the gospel to all men. More is expected of us than any previous generation. Where 'much is given much is required.' (D&C 82:3.) — Ezra Taft Benson

I would prefer to live with bleeding heart where desire see darkness of uncertainty because I need to know the existence of love — Seema Gupta