Viv Rook Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I would take Nietzsche or something. And I wouldn't read it, but more just scan the words. Sometimes I would get whatever the popular thing at the time was. I don't know, something like Bret Easton Ellis. It was just a very random, inefficient education. — John Brandon

In many chapels, reddened by the setting sun, the saints rest silently, waiting for someone to love them." These words, penned by an unknown priest, long dead,were the inspiration for my new series on the lives of saints who have fallen deep into the shadows of obscurity. My hope is that, in reading their heroic stories, you will make the acquaintance of some of God's Forgotten Friends. (From the Preface of "Saint Magnus The Last Viking") — Susan Peek

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Color is something we see with our eyes, but love is something we see with our heart. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Marriage is a great strain upon love. — Myrtle Reed

Personally, when I don't feel like working out, I put on my workout clothes and pump up some music. It's definitely my #1 inspiration. — Jenna Ushkowitz

I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends. — Steve Carell

Love can forbear, and Love can forgive ... but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object ... He can never therefore be reconciled to your sin, because sin itself is incapable of being altered; but He may be reconciled to your person because that may be restored and Loved. — Thomas Traherne

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track. — Condola Rashad

When I saw that, the evidence left by two people, of love or something like it, desire at least, at least touch, between two people now perhaps old or dead, I covered the bed again and lay down on it. I looked up at the blind plaster eye in the ceiling. I wanted to feel Luke lying beside me. I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head. Sometimes it can hardly be borne. What is to be done, what is to be done, I thought. There is nothing to be done. They also serve who only stand and wait. Or lie down and wait. I know why the glass in the window is shatterproof, and why they took down the chandelier. I wanted to feel Luke lying besides me, but there wasn't room. — Margaret Atwood

The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer. — Ludwig Von Mises

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen. — John Updike

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally. — Barton Gellman

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. — James Fisher