A. Lynn Quotes
You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.
But selfish isn't necessarily a bad thing. It only means you take care of yourself and you have to do that to be able to take care of others.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”-Walt Disney
Daa-r'uu Wee-z'oo."-Ettie the Explorer
From the necks up... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra.
Three questions, ” I said, ticking them off on my fingers as I spoke. “One: do you have a car? Two: do you have plans tonight? And three: how fast can you drive?
And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.
Where the rivers meetyou tell me of your black dreams.Your memories make me uneasy.But I listen because I knowmy listening, like all other listeningallows you to heal.
And it is seldom easy to convince a person that he is playing the fool.
He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?
To paraphrase Shakespeare’s Polonius, you sometimes have to get your hands a little dirty to set things straight.
Bernier turned in her chair, smiled, and shook their hands. Dana’s heart skipped a beat as she stood inches away from one of New York’s most glamorous and adored women.
She was told it was magnetism that kept them engaged, and how do you separate magnets? You force them apart.
People will sometimes find themselves attracted to others, that's just who they are. It's what they do with that attraction that defines them.
So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.
At least with zombies I know my enemy and I know what to do: Aim and shoot. It's not so easy with people.
I’m an entrepreneur at heart, I’m not afraid of starting up, starting over or even failing for that matter, because the fact that I try new things in itself is a victory.
You're not interesting in the least, " she spat. "I don't need to be, " I smiled. "That's what you need...And you're welcome to it.
Why weren't we born in the same era?" he lamented. She eased past him neither here nor there, looked over her shoulder and whispered, "How mundane and cliche would that be?
Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.
Good or bad, if you’re not “normal, ” you can’t have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.
I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women
Well, " a female voice said. "What have we here?""Here, " Bethany said, responding to the woman's rhetorical question, "we have a teenager. And she's pissed.
I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all.
Now is the time to create living relationships with our loved ones who have died.
Do we really need a study on why people lie? They lie because it's easy, and cowards are good at "easy." Telling the truth takes moxie, and few have it.
Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can.
But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.
Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they're not quite comfortable.
The easiest way to get rid of bitterness is to spit it out. The easiest way to forget something noxious is to flush it. The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything.
Change is coming, she whispered to the bugs bouncing off her window. You can’t escape it.
My fear is that he'll forget me, " she bemoaned with crystalline sadness. I took her hand, limp with loss and held it. "I'd rather not be remembered by any man as it saves me the embarrassment.
I didn't intend to go in that direction but strange things happen when the lights go out.
Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.
Just because you talk about it or advocate for one position doesn't mean you care more. Just because someone doesn't talk about it and advocates a different position doesn't mean they care less.
I knew without a glimmer of doubt that all things in the universe were connected by a living truth that would not relent its continuing search for wholeness until every form of life was united.
…her mom's faith wasn't just about God healing her, it was about God's sovereignty in her life. She had faith that God is, and will always be, who He says He is in His Word.
Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.
I am deeply honored by the trust the board has placed in me to lead Duke Energy. I have a high degree of confidence in the strength of our company's leadership and dedicated employees.
Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.
The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inextricably linked to the struggle for equality and justice.
No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.
What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.