Unshockable Quotes & Sayings

Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out ... and she said, So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control. — Laura Munson

Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life. — Laozi

Her heart was pumping sunshine and fresh running water. — Caela Carter

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine. — James Russell Lowell

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them. — Milan Kundera

There isn't anyone in my life who is going to get upset about how much travelling I have to do or whether or not I'm available for drinks that night. — Brie Larson

She's happier than Nicola. That's probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesn't know. — Roddy Doyle

Home wasn't built in a day — Jane Ace

Don't be angry, Finnula had said, be smart. — Sarah J. Maas

Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond; it made him weary behond comprehension. But it also made him free. — John L. Parker Jr.

I'm unshockable, fortunately - or unfortunately. — Jaye Davidson

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people. — Martha Gellhorn

15-2 See, your faith anchors you in Christ. That's intellectual. You believe it. You accept it. You say that it's right. You recognize it to be the truth, and you're a Christian. And you've got Everlasting Life by believing it. You've entered to God. You're on the campgrounds. Manna's falling, and you're eating it.
And did you notice: the strange thing, there was a mixed multitude eating the same manna? People who are sinners, who does not accept the Lord Jesus can still enjoy the--seeing the moving of the miracle of God, healing the sick; can rejoice in people doing right; can open their hearts and rejoice in a sermon that's preached under the anointing. And that's the same type of manna that the Christian is eating. You see it? ( See "Why are people so tossed about ?" Preached on Sunday, 1st January 1956 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A. - Paragraph 15:2 ) — William Marrion Branham

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory. — Nick Flynn

Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award. — Gena Showalter