Valenced Responses Quotes & Sayings

Then Alec had smiled at one of Magnus's jokes, and the smile had lit a lamp in his solemn face, making his blue eyes brilliant, and briefly taking Magnus's breath away — Cassandra Clare

I remember When I was a star In the night A moving, burning ember Amid the bright Clouds of star fire Going deathward To the womb. - JOHN WHITESIDE PARSONS, untitled — George Pendle

I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Knowing who you are is more valuable than having ten 'friends' who don't even know who they are, but who judge you anyway. — Christina Engela

Dear Christ! the very prison walls Suddenly seemed to reel, And the sky above my head became Like a casque of scorching steel; And, though I was a soul in pain, My pain I could not feel. — Oscar Wilde

Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them ... Get your eyes off the temptation and onto Christ! — Billy Graham

You know the best part of being a mom is getting that love. Honestly, you know, my son's love ... a child's love is so pure, it just makes you feel so good no matter what. — Ciara

Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts. — Frederick Lenz

The British are like that, especially the middle class Radio 4 audience: a young snappy, angry person annoys them, and they shout at the radio for him to show some respect and get the spiritual and intellectual equivalent of a haircut. But let the same sentiments exactly, word for word, be uttered in high academic tones, as if by a compound of G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell and Anthony Quinton, and they will roll onto their tummies and purr. — Stephen Fry

Come home with me tonight, Becca."
She stared at him for a long beat. "You don't like people in your space."
"I don't," he said. "But you're not people. — Jill Shalvis

There may well be a scientific paper to be written on why walking in an art gallery is so much more exhausting than, say, climbing Helvellyn. My guess is that it is something to do with the energy required to hold muscles in tension, combined with the mental exertion of wondering what to say. — David Nicholls

Compliments you get free, the complaints you've to earn it. — Sarvesh Jain