Susan Shelby Magoffin Quotes & Sayings

So he died, because for a split-second he got brave. But not then. He died much later, after the split-second of bravery had faded into long hours of wretched gasping fear, and after the long hours of fear had exploded into long minutes of insane screaming panic. — Lee Child

The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about. I myself can only wish that my stories were, indeed, nothing but incredible fabrications. I have stayed alive all these years clinging to the frail hope that these memories of mine were nothing but a dream or a delusion. I have struggled to convince myself that they never happened. But each time I tried to push them into the dark, they came back stronger and more vivid than ever. Like cancer cells, these memories have taken root in my mind and eaten into my flesh. — Haruki Murakami

A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life. — Beth Moore

I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway in a sultry breeze against the unmistakable aqua splendor of the Caribbean Sea; drinking coconut, lime, and tequila from a scooped-out pineapple, with salt spray of breaking surf and sun kissing my skin.
Translation: I'd died and gone to heaven. — Karen Marie Moning

If the sky, by sinister alchemy, or diabolical prestidigitation, transformed into a mirror of the mother sea, the primordial cradle; and if leviathans swam that breadth and hovered, softly undulating over the teaming habitations of the globe, feasting; what should you wear? — Laird Barron

Economics is in many respects the queen of the soft sciences. It's expected to be better than the rest. It's my view that economics is better at the multi-disciplinary stuff than the rest of the soft science. And it's also my view that it's still lousy ... — Charlie Munger

I'll go grocery shopping at the farmer's market on a Sunday and already know what I'm going to cook for the next two, three or four days. — Tia Mowry

We are tomorrow's past. — Mary Webb

Let us hope the time will come when language is most efficiently used where it is being most efficiently misused. — David Shields

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s. — Alan Moore

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. — Baruch Spinoza

I always feel like I am on the dark side of the tracks. I feel I'm no good. I can't read. — Ozzy Osbourne

Barack Obama's daughters are very smart. They told him they will take the same responsibility for the dog that he is taking for the economy. That way, if the dog leaves a mess in the White House, it'll be cleaned up by future generations. — Jay Leno