Talitha Blackwell Quotes & Sayings

What it is coming down to is who runs the country. It's us against them. It's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's the God-fearing people against the pagans, and some of the pagans are going to church. — Randall Terry

But the truly brilliant geocachers?"
"Yeah?" he says. "What about us?"
"They know it by its real name. Terra Firma."
"Terra Firma," he repeats. At last, he slips his backpack off his shoulder. I know what he's looking for.
I take a breath. "You don't need your GPS for this cache."
His eyes don't move off mine; he's watching me so carefully. "You don't, huh?"
"Nope," I say.
Some things are meant to be kept - what you learn from experiences good or bad, smiles from an orphaned girl, a boy who is your compass pointing to your True North. So I look at Jacob full in the face with nothing obscuring him. Or me. And then I step closer to him. And closer. And closer yet.
"Here I am," I tell him. "Here I am. — Justina Chen

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past. — Walter Scott

I've sworn off men. All they do is break your heart and eat your junk food." - Maggie Maddock — April Aasheim

Maybe writing doesn't require sacrifice. Maybe it's a gift to experience emotions through our brushes, ink, and paper. I wrote out sorrow, fear, and hate. You wrote desire, joy, and love. We paid a heavy price for speaking our minds, for revealing our hearts, for trying to create, but it was worth it, wasn't it, daughter? — Lisa See

There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do. — Richard Dawkins

But one of the saddest, most deprecating misuses of power is the withholding of love, affirmation, and delight from other people. Few things keep people in line with our wishes more than an attitude of reserve or aloofness. It is paradoxical that in the power struggle of relationships, the one who loves and encourages the least, gains the most power. This puts people on edge, keeps them guessing, and plays on their need for assurance about their worth. — Lloyd John Ogilvie

Speech is civilization itself. — Thomas Mann

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm! — Orson Welles

Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death. — Caterina Sforza

The world's equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind's ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System - the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed. — Baha'u'llah

The following afternoon, alone in their room, and oppressed by not yet having made the promised call to Connie ... — Jonathan Franzen

Law of attraction says: "We'll give you whatever it is you say and focus on." and so if you are complaining about how bad it is, what you're creating is more of how bad it is. — Jack Canfield

With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever. — Dixie Carter