Vadon Card Quotes & Sayings

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop. — Shannon Hale

In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover. — Barbara Ehrenreich

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins. — Barbara Kingsolver

People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it. — Henry Miller

Even as I think these words for the first time, the me who is my future self is remembering me thinking these words for the first time. — J. Michael Straczynski

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports. — Yanni

the striving (and anxious) Christian, deprived of the Catholic's recourse to sacramental justification, could find signs of his being among the elect if he could successfully and unceasingly apply himself to disciplined work and his worldly calling. Material productivity was often the fruit of such effort, which, compounded by the Puritan demand for ascetic renunciation of selfish pleasure and frivolous spending, readily lent itself to the accumulation of capital. Whereas traditionally the pursuit of commercial success was perceived as directly threatening to the religious life, now the two were recognized as mutually beneficial. — Richard Tarnas