Tufted Ottoman Quotes & Sayings

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. — V.S. Naipaul

We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery. We in the church are saying no. We are prepared to live by what God says, not what you say. Man shall not sleep with man, woman shall not sleep with woman. — Peter Akinola

No other religion, no other, promises new bodies, hearts, and minds. Only in the gospel of Christ do hurting people find such incredible hope. — Joni Eareckson Tada

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart. — Karl Barth

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee — Benjamin Franklin

One that we are just beginning to understand- is that trust, once eroded, is very hard to restore. — Dan Ariely

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall. — Valerie Bertinelli

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Oh, yeah, that goatee is really unattractive. That definitely belongs on a much fatter man. — Elle Lothlorien

When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. — Charles Dickens

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans. — Bernie Sanders

Cricket's voice broke through Thomas's memory. He was reading a letter, most likely from his mother. He was trying hard to hide it, but he was tearing up.
"Captain I don't want to be here," was all he could choke out. Thomas reached over and gave Cricket's shoulder a tight squeeze. — Jessica Fortunato

He'd do anything, absolutely everything for this man, suck him, kill, kill himself, run away, be something else, anything else, everything just blurred, darkness, a place inside that only held him and Dan. Nobody else, nothing else, no time, no place, no affiliations, no past, no future. — Aleksandr Voinov

Doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions? — Martin Amis