Whr Rivers Quotes & Sayings

Sam rocked backwards and felt all the breath leave his body. Sam felt all his breath leave the room, the apartment, the building. the city. Sam felt all his breath leave the world, the night, and travel up to the stars where it turned to ice and stretched atom-thin into every corner of the galaxy. Then it retracted, gathering up all the black world, and wound its way back through interstellar space and dark matter and the secrets of infinity, back into the earth's orbit, back into his night in his city, back into his very lungs. It was okay. He was just trying to help, to ease woes and mend hearts and cool seared souls, to guide the bereaved out of the land of the lost, to make the mourning a little less lonesome. He was forgiven. — Laurie Frankel

The privacy of sorrow. — Elizabeth Strout

Everyone knows that what they see in the movies is not real, but they're still able to let themselves go for two hours and "believe" what they see up on the screen. — Bryan Alvarez

His eyes meet mine, and for a moment everything seems like it'll be okay. More than okay, actually. — Collette West

Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck. — Jonathan Feldman

But when our elected officials and our political campaign become entirely untethered to reason and facts and analysis, when it doesn't matter what's true and what's not, that makes it all but impossible for us to make good decisions on behalf of future generations. It threatens the values of respect and tolerance that we teach our children and that are the source of America's strength. It frays the habits of the heart that underpin any civilized society -- because how we operate is not just based on laws, it's based on habits and customs and restraint and respect. — President Barack Obama

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. — William Lyon Phelps

We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming a man, to help man. Whoever heard of Jupiter or Mars or Minerva coming down and attempting to bear the burdens of men? The gods were willing enough to receive the gifts of men, but Christianity is unique in the fact that our God became a man with human infirmity and emptied Himself of the glory of heaven, in order that He might take upon Himself the sins, diseases and weakness of our humanity. — A.C. Dixon

I don't think so, and that's partly the problem of not checking cargo, and it's partly the problem of biological weapons, which nobody has figured out really what to do about yet — Jay Rockefeller

The moments you are given are your true wealth. You don't need power, influence, or fame. The sunlight brings the power; the wind carries the influence. And as for fame, well, when you allow yourself to notice all those hands that have made your growth possible, you will also recognize what you have made possible for countless others - and how famous you already are. In this very moment, one of those others may be telling a story about how you helped them grow forward. — Dawna Markova

Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted. — Stanley Nelson Jr.

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self. — Minor White

Tell me what I am to you." ... "Oh honey, you're the man I call when I need a ride. — Kimberly Dean

A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life. — Washington Irving

I contemplate myself surrounded by the conditions I wish to attract into my life. — Wayne W. Dyer