Vive Not Turning On Quotes & Sayings

I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure:
That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue.
That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming.
That I was loved.
That this time, it was not me who broke — Jodi Picoult

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children. — Stephen King

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right. — Phil Crosby

Those who object to wit are envious of it. — William Hazlitt

A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.'
'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly.
'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong ... — John Marsden

Socialism is a new form of slavery. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life. — Tama Janowitz

I am a part of all that I have met. To you, whether or not you know, having wandered into the tissue of my life, and out again, you have left a momentary part of you which I will work into something. There is nothing but that it will suffer a sea change into something rich and strange. Through me transmuted. — Sylvia Plath

No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that. — Kate Beckinsale

Whore!" he snarls, slamming me into the wall so hard stars burst in my eyes. I hiss at him, the tiger in me threatening to emerge and rip out his throat, but a shout brings me back to myself.
"Zahra!"
I turn my head and see Aladdin running toward us. When he sees that it's Darian holding me roughly against the wall, his face twists into such rage that he seems unrecognizable.
He crashes into Darian before the prince has a chance to say anything. The two slam into the ground, Aladdin throwing a punch that cracks against Darian's jaw.
"Stop it!" I cry. "Prince Rahzad!"
The boys ignore me, rolling and thrashing like dogs.
Leave them! Zhian roars. Let me out!
"How dare you touch her?" Aladdin spits, grabbing Darian by the hair and pressing the prince's face into the stone floor. "You bastard!"
"I didn't give her anything she didn't ask for," Darian hisses back. "Get off me or I'll have you executed! — Jessica Khoury

If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise. — Samuel Rutherford

The fall of communism had more to do with prayer meetings in Poland than bombs dropped on Cambodia. — Brian Zahnd