Strope Quotes & Sayings

Gradually, the anxiety gives way to contemplation, and I start to listen to my soul. It has been longing to speak to me, but I'm always too busy. — Paulo Coelho

I don't believe in the search. I believe in happiness now. — Marty Rubin

Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people. — Mihai Eminescu

It is in our forgiveness of other people's sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God. — Alistair Begg

A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office. — Dilip Shanghvi

Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them ... mediation, keeping a distance from the actual events and being privileged enough not to have to witness them. — Javier Marias

At this time of day it should have been open and full of fifty fellow smackheads, crackheads, psychotics, epileptics, schizophrenics, self-harmers, beggars, buskers, car thieves, sherry pushers, ciderheads, just-released-that-morning convicts, ex-army, ex-married-men-with-young-children-who'd-discovered-their-wife-in-bed-with-two-members-of-the-university-rowing-team-at-the-same-time. — Alexander Masters

A period romance film with elements of horror. That was successful, because I feel like Coppola's DRACULA was one or the other. You know? It was never scary it was never a film he got invested in the romance of the characters. He understood it, but he never got invested. So it as a challenge for me to see if I could do that, I still don't know how audiences will sort of react to that. — Cary Fukunaga

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character. — Gregory Maguire

I want to sleep with people, steal, get run out of town, leave my fingerprints on every scene. We have a name for it, our generation. It's our Baghdad."
"Your what?"
"My Baghdad," Tommy said laughing, knowing it was dumb, savoring the dumbness, and maybe also its truth. "The situation you get into knowing it's fucked-up but you keep doing it anyway, making it an even bigger disaster. Everyone gets one, but that's how you learn. It builds character, makes you dirty and real. You know you're a superpower when you can lose every war and still be a superpower. Maybe you're a superpower because you can afford to lose them. Same here. There should be a Web site that records all the risks a person has taken, all the famous people they've met, all their gnarly trips and bad decisions. Like a Web site that ranks who's lived the most."
"Isn't that called Facebook?" Mills asked. — Christopher Bollen

Bookshop Customer: 'Who wrote the bible?'
Customer's friend: 'Jesus. — Jen Campbell

I think," Favian said after a beat, "that you are perfectly capable of being your own protector. But I fully intend to be the person who proves to you that you are deserving of protection." She — R.A. Steffan

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name. — Phaedrus

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse. — Waite Hoyt

Men who hit are spineless and low to the ground. Hence, The Worm Fiasco, was born. — Carrie-Anne O'Driscoll