Voloshin Maria Quotes & Sayings

In my life, I've been both the besieged and the besieged, and I know damned well which I prefer! — Sharon Kay Penman

It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on. — Helene Hanff

So, as you can see and if you reflect on it, awkward headed-females mating with beautifully normal headed-males is a bad idea. — Penny Reid

I am open to squeezing in whatever I can in this wonderful life. Instead of asking, "Is that all there is?" I seem, lately, to be always saying, "Wow!" — Denise Duhamel

When well executed, description is unobtrusive and lends substance to a novel. It is the body fat of prose: too much is unhealthy, but without any, you no longer have the thing - you have its skeleton. — Howard Mittelmark

silence is kind of considered approval. — Erin Watt

Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. — Louis D. Brandeis

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You ought to go to the Wizard of Oz and ask him for some courage. — Thomas Henderson

Our personal shadow is the "hidden unconscious aspects of [ourselves], both good and bad, which the ego has either repressed or never recognized." It is all of the incompatible thoughts, feelings, desires, fantasies, and actions that we have suppressed and repressed into the personal unconscious, along with our more primitive, undifferentiated impulses and instincts. In the Freudian view of the psyche, it is what Freud identifies as the whole of the "unconscious." It is what I like to describe as the personal psychological garbage can of our psyches. — David Schoen

I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however. — Richelle E. Goodrich

My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music. — Charlie Wilson

Perhaps. I can understand wanting to kill the competetion, but to do it so viciously ... I hope it's nota a pattern."
Dorian's blood went a bit cold. "You think they'll try to kill Celaena?"
"I added some extra guards around her rooms."
"To protect her, or to keep her in? — Sarah J. Maas

Attentive reading of God's Word will set you up for frequent Holy Spirit warnings as He uses Scripture to set off alarms of danger in your life. As you grow spiritually, you may discover direct "prompts" God's Spirit gives, but they will always be in harmony with what God says in His Word. — James MacDonald