Xine Viet Quotes & Sayings

Before he knew he was immortal. Before life was no longer fragile. Those were the days when life truly meant something.
When life was hard but worthwile, and love was valuable because your days were numbered.
That was living. — Chelsea Fine

I stared at the changing patterns on the back of his white shirt as he moved under the trees. — Patricia Duncker

For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me. — Carolyn Parkhurst

As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there. — Renzo Piano

Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them. — Yehuda Berg

I am still not talking to you," said Liza Hempstock's voice, proud as a peacock and pert as a sparrow. "Actually, you are. I mean, we're talking right now." "Only during this emergency. After that, not a word. — Neil Gaiman

Freedom then is not what Sir Robert Filmer tells us, O. A.8 55, "a liberty for every one to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws." But freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power erected in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, where the rule prescribes not; and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man; as freedom of nature is to be under no other restraint but the law of nature. — John Locke

Ophelia was beating some poor underling for not knowing her arse from the sparse collection of cells between her ears. — Molly Harper

You don't learn journalism in school, you learn it by WRITING FUCKING JOURNALISM. You teach yourself to wire up your own brain and gut and reproductive organs into one frightening machine that you aim at the planet like a meat gun. — Warren Ellis

It says Fear does not stop death. It stops life. I — Vi Keeland

No single food will make or break good health. But the kinds of food you choose day in and day out have a major impact. — Walter Willet

I saw the Earth, yes. I saw the colors so magnificent, so vivid, so real. It was hope so large and round, green and blue. — Hafsah Faizal

My skin wasn't a dark stone cover that words could not penetrate. Why was it when some people were around me, they often spoke as if no one lived inside my skin? The — Jill Fletcher Pelaez

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well. — Steve Earle

There was no telling who would win. It would definitely be close. But she knew which side she was pulling for. Go Red Sox. — Sherrilyn Kenyon