The River 1951 Quotes & Sayings

To be different is to seek God earnestly — Sunday Adelaja

If I was going to go out tonight, I was going to go out fighting. Or screaming in agony. Either way. — Darynda Jones

If you believe, you can achieve the set-goal. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I suddenly knew, in a way I'd never had before, what want meant, and why it was dangerous and greedy and huge. — Amy Lane

Sometimes we see only what we want to show ourselves. — Christie Watson

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. — Hunter S. Thompson

Do you remember the lake?' she said, in an abrupt voice, under the pressure of an emotion which caught her heart, made the muscles of her throat stiff, and contracted her lips in a spasm as she said 'lake.' For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents, and at the same time a grown woman coming to her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them grew larger and larger in her arms until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, 'This is what I have made of it! This!' And what had she made of it? What indeed? sitting there sewing this morning with Peter. — Virginia Woolf

It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol. It has done nothing for climate change and the business is in real trouble now with the collapse of oil prices. It's completely dependent on a dollar subsidy and tariff from the government. — Michael Pollan

I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like. — Evan Mandery

If at first you don't succeed, blame someone else and hide behind a bush. — Peter James West

But it was smell that carried memory. — Ann Brashares

Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants. — Jon Krakauer

We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that this is not true. — David Jeremiah

A fisherman is always hopeful
nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be. — Roderick Haig-Brown