Yelped Define Quotes & Sayings

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth. — Douglas Coupland

He couldn't help but give in to the occasional temptation to replay past events in his mind, altering them, changing them from cruel to comfortable, from sad to happy, from unfair to accommodating. Anything was possible in his imagination. Any ending. If only thinking it could make it so. — Kevin Henkes

We have filled our lives and our churches with more comforts for us, all while turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to abject poverty in others. We need our eyes opened to the implications of the gospel for how we live. — David Platt

On the island, the recipe for an entertaining evening is drink this, smoke that, snort this, eat that. How do you feel? Well, try this and some of that. — Doug Cooper

I'm a mother. Mothers multi-task. — Sherri Shepherd

I'll go anywhere and I'll do whatever it takes to get this done. It's too important for Washington to screw this up. Now's the time for us to work on what we all agree to, which is let's keep middle-class taxes low. That's what our economy needs. That's what the American people deserve. — Barack Obama

A miracle can be the result of effort multiplied by faith. — Evgenij Vodolazkin

When I asked her what was the matter? answered, she didn't know; but she felt so afraid of dying! — Emily Bronte

Braves fans are one-of-a-kind. Your passion to win comes close to equaling that of the players that go out on the field each and every game. But when the team goes through rough patches, you're there to encourage and cheer and believe that things will turn around. — Tim Hudson

And thus it was to everyone's surprise when Hera said that she would undertake to provide a whole amphora full of her husband's seed- she would harvest them herself- if Aphrodite would promise to marry her brilliant son, Hephaestus, the sapient Craftsman of the Gods, when she was translated to Olympus. — Nicholas Chong

Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up. — Gautama Buddha

He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful. — Sherman Alexie