Traveling Mercies Quotes & Sayings

I don't get it." She gestured to the crowd of dancing princesses and princes, and the twelfth princess in particular. "Don't you have a princess already?"
"The twelve dancing princesses curse isn't mine."
"Then ... what is your curse? Why am I here?"
"Why are you here?" He leaned in, so close she could see the silver flecks in his dark grey eyes. "You're here because I got tired of waiting for you to die. — Sarah Cross

Drunk people run stop signs, high people wait for them to turn green — Layzie Bone

I'll call you when I'm on my way home. Don't shoot Grant if he comes over there. Rush grinned then hung up the phone. — Abbi Glines

Anne Lamott says in Traveling Mercies, I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said, Do the best you can with these, they will have to do. And mostly, against all odds, they're enough. — Melanie Shankle

Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross. — George Whitefield

Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about. — Roger Ebert

For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual's interests. — John Carroll

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them. — Wally Lamb

Life is all about lies. It's about what you can stomach. — Peter Tieryas

Boo was asking him who the hell he thought he was and also could he spare a few kitty treats for a poor, abused house cat? — Kristen Ashley

Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books. — Abdullah Of Saudi Arabia

Politics. The word is taken from the Ancient Greek. "Poly" means "many." And ticks are tiny, bloodsucking insects. — Michael Dobbs

ten years of whorehouse joy I'm alone now in the mountains the pines are like a jail the wind scratches my skin Ikky — Stephen Berg