Wettest County Quotes & Sayings

I went to church my entire childhood, and do you know what I learned?" "What?" "Not a thing. I know I heard a lot of things about God, but I don't remember one of them." "Maybe you didn't have good teachers." "How good do you have to be to teach a child one thing? No, the problem wasn't that they couldn't teach me one thing. The problem was they tried to teach me everything. Every week was a different story and a different lesson with a different picture. All I knew is that if I sat there quietly, I'd get a cookie at the end. — Andy Stanley

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In his scintillating new novel, Matt Bondurant explores a crucial period in the history of Virginia and of his family. His gorgeous, precise prose brings to life an amazing cast of characters, including Sherwood Anderson, and the often deadly battles of Prohibition. The Wettest County in the World is a remarkably compelling, highly intelligent, and deeply moving novel. — Margot Livesey

This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me. — Elton John

Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up! — Diana Wynne Jones

You do realize, that if you actually dated her, saw her on a regular basis, lived with her, that she would find some fault with you, right? That she would find some things about you that drove her crazy. That she'd make demands of you that you wouldn't like. That she'd get angry at you? — Gillian Flynn

Be that as it may, it's all I have to work with. Clutching these faded, fading, imperfect memories to my breast, I go on writing this book with all the desperate intensity of a starving man sucking on bones. — Anonymous

The possibilities that exist between two people, or among a group of people, are a kind of alchemy. They are the most interesting thing in life. The liar is someone who keeps losing sight of these possibilities — Adrienne Rich

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits. — Stephan Jenkins

As a private person, professionally I am invisible. — Michael Haneke

True weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better. — Jonathan Edwards

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. — Florence Scovel Shinn

We are One in spirit, omnipresent and all-knowing, and at the same time, we are individual souls, each with unique attributes. — Akemi G

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver. — Darren Flutie

I ain't afraid to love a man ... — Annie Oakley

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of reality can feel natural and pleasant, but the result is your demise as an individual, and thus the collapse of any political system that depends on individualism — Timothy Snyder