Strudler Institute Quotes & Sayings

She needed care and time; enough space not to feel threatened, but not so much that she could retreat. — Tami Hoag

Dan wanted me to stay. I wanted Elf to stay. Everyone in the whole world was fighting with somebody to stay. When Richard Bach wrote "If you love someone, set them free" he can't have been directing his advice at human beings. — Miriam Toews

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play. — William, Saroyan

His hopeless challenge dauntless cried
Fingolfin there: 'Come, open wide,
dark king, you ghatsly brazen doors!
Come forth, whom earth and heaven abhors!
Come forth, O monstruous craven lord,
and fight with thine own hand and sword,
thou wielder of hosts of banded thralls,
thou tyrant leaguered with strong walls,
thou foe of Gods and elvish race!
I wait thee here. Come! Show thy face! — J.R.R. Tolkien

The sub-conscious mind is like a bank - a universal bank; it magnifies whatever you deposit or impress upon it — Dr.Joseph Murphy

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us. — Tullian Tchividjian

He relaxed and looked at my lips and then my eyes and then back to my lips. How do we do that? This is what we do ... back and forth, back and forth. You want me, you want him. You love me, you love him. You like me, you hate me, you want me, you don't want me, you love me ... you leave me. There's so much that went wrong before ... — S.C. Stephens

As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed. — Banana Yoshimoto

A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive. — W. A. H. Rushton

I'm filled with awe, as I always am, as I watch her transform from a woman who calls me to kill a spider to a woman immune to fear. — Suzanne Collins

Do you know what they teach you in Boy Scouts?"
I shake my head.
"Neither do I," he says. "I was kicked out after the second day for lighting shit on fire. — Karina Halle

Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the man will be bored or put off? — Alice Munro

We all have our secrets that we keep because we do not want to hurt the people who love us — Cassandra Clare

[He]said something that made it impossible to continue working for him.[The exact words were]You're fired. — Christopher Hitchens