Ulbrich Of Illinois Quotes & Sayings

It was too familiar to Cody. He placed his arms around his wife trying somehow to shelter her from the reality she was facing. There was another reason for his closeness; his desperation to show her he was not one of them, that the tribes of cruel men did not recognize him as one of their own, and to show his wife that his promise to create a safe place for her was a promise she need not fear would be broken. In the innermost part of him, from the secret child that lives within all men, was a scared cry, "Please don't think I'm bad too." From the other innermost part of him, the secret animal that prowls in some men was a raging wolf ready to kill. The battle line within the man had been drawn. The boundaries of faith rose up around the rage, warning the soul against righteous anger morphing to blood lust. — Lee Goff

Acting up, a peculiar phrase. It's what people say to minimize the gravity of their condition. It implies that the offending part (heart, stomach, liver, whatever) is a fractious, bratty child, which can be brought into line with a slap or a sharp word. At the same time, that these symptoms
these tremors and pains, these palpitations
are mere theatrics, and that the organ in question will soon stop capering about and making a spectacle of itself, and resume its placid, off-stage existence. — Margaret Atwood

I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players. — Pau Gasol

To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand
such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them. — Victor Hugo

Creativity doesn't just happen - you make it happen. Changing daily routines is one way to access creativity. — Nita Leland

I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness. — Jamie Redknapp

Opportunity, adventure, sunsets, dusty death. — Don DeLillo

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers. — Sheila Nevins

Let the enemies of life step down. — Saul Bellow

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage.
But I never get the chance. — Suzanne Collins

Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental. — Jim McKenny

We are on the verge of listening — Earl Lovelace