Struin About Quotes & Sayings

If you wish to know the truth of who you are,
follow the voice that calls you home.
Go there.
For where our love is,
there we will be. — Frederick Espiritu

We're nothing more than prisoners to your desire. — Jessie Burton

He grinned at me and whispered, I'm going to kiss you now. It'll be a big one, so don't hit me. — Jennifer Echols

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this. — William Shakespeare

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself. — Calvin Coolidge

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it. — Trent Reznor

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things. — Mitchel Resnick

"Nix, I know you're faking the static." She could picture her sister blowing into her fist directly at the receiver. The static abruptly stopped. "Why?"
"It seamed less rude than the alternative."
"What's that?"
Click. — Kresley Cole

Those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly and as privately as possible. But what I've discovered since is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place and that only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal — Anne Lamott

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune. — Cameron Monaghan

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering. — Rafael Nadal

I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'. — S.A. Tawks

'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock, but my believing that he did it has nothing to do with whether or not he really did do it. So also with the story of Jesus walking on water: Believing that he did it has nothing to do with whether he really did do it. 'Belief' cannot be the basis for historical conclusions; it has no direct relevance. — Marcus Borg