The Orenda Joseph Boyden Quotes & Sayings

Alcoholics are, in truth, failures, and their failure is a simple failure of will. They have made bad choices, and they continue to do so every day. By calling them victims of a disease, we magically shift the burden of the problem from choice and personal control, where it belongs, to an impersonal force - disease. — Martin E.P. Seligman

O beauty, are you not enough; why am I crying after love. — Sara Teasdale

You can't convince anyone of anything. You can only give them the right information, so that they convince themselves. — Eben Pagan

Women do not avoid fighting because they are dainty or scared, but because they have a greater stake than men in staying alive to rear their offspring. Women compete with each other just as tenaciously as men, but with a stealth and subtlety that reduces their chances of being killed or injured. — Anne Campbell

Lovers are like kids; they don't stop until they get what they want. — M.F. Moonzajer

It felt at that moment unarguable that a horizon line might exert as potent or pull upon the mind as a mountain's summit. — Robert Macfarlane

It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all. — Chrissie Wellington

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream! — John Dryden

The supreme religious challenge is to see God's image in one who is not in our image. — Jonathan Sacks

The voice was at once the night and the dawn and the stars and the earth, and every inch of my body calmed at the primal dominance in it. — Sarah J. Maas

[Writing about her address to a ladies club]: The heart of my message to them was that they would all fry in Hell if they didn't quit reading trash. — Flannery O'Connor

When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. — William Shakespeare

Men are awesome, but they're pretty easy to figure out; women are way more complicated, and way more interesting. — Judy Greer