If I Wake Quotes
Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts!
That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed.
Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.
Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.
The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.
Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.
Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around
You're not lost, Kaylee. You can't ever be lost, because I'll always know where you are. And if I'm not there with you, I'm on my way, and nothing standing between us will be standing for very long.
And I met Madeline's necromancer. His name's Luca." "A death detector?" Tod made a face. "That's creepy." "It gets weirder. He's dating Sophie." "On purpose?
Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.
She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
Honesty is a quality Patrick likes. Give him a bitter pill if the situation demands it, but don't tell him it's chocolate.
You have to learn to love yourself. How can others appreciate what you have to offer if you don’t value yourself?
If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.
We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.
Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.
For every excuse that you've ever had or came up with of why you can't or couldn't, there's someone who's had that same excuse or even worse, but found a way and did
If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.
If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.
...ask yourself, "Who's getting the glory in this ministry?" You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won't be for His glory, because our ways are not His ways.
The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise.Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list.
Sometimes a smile is all that is needed to change a person’s day and it cost me nothing to give.
I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.
During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.
... sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.
Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! So be yet!
Great change doesn't come with official endorsement.
It doesn't matter if you have to kick, crawl, scratch, hop, limp, hobble, or be carried to the finish line. Just make sure you finish you race.
My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.
If I’m going down, I’m going down with lipstick on.” ~Maggie Mae Castro
My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.
So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white.
Pulling back, like a savage carnivore at its prey, it tore a large chunk of meat rendering his left arm useless...regardless he did not require it for long.
I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the waves.
You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know.
Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.
