S.J. Watson Quotes

I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind.

Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.

Women have eyes in their hearts that see what men cannot.

Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.

Some things you cannot stop happening.

Some things are more than we can understand.

If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.

A gust of wind doesn't suddenly bang a door open. A clock doesn't chime. The phone doesn't ring. Yet in the next instant the stillness breaks as if it is crystal.

With Dan you have to listen to his underneath, you know? Not so much what he says.

There are memories I am better off without. Things better lost forever.

Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important.

You never know who anybody is. Even the people closest to you.

To create myself from nothing.

Life is more interesting when you colour outside the lines

Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

A cold word from a cold man sends shivers throughout my body but my heart remains warm

..there are two possible endings to every story.

Charles Wesley's hymns are forceful because they contain so many words which are physical: for him the life of a Christian was to be experienced in the body as well as in the soul.

Dear Cake, You're AWESOME. That is all

I don’t have perfect teeth. I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.

You must understand something. Money is not a sign of achievement.

I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.

I am a practitioner of the science of deduction, of using the known facts in a case to unveil the unknown.’ - Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders

She thinks you're stalking me.""Why the hell would I do that? I see too much of your ugly mug as it is.

What if, " replied Inspector Fry in the same maddeningly curteous tone, "we were all to construct daisy chains and drape them so as to shield the words from public view?

Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep

One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.

Love bleeds you dry until the red organ ceases to beat

The clouds wept when my heart sand a song of sorrow

Every action triggers a reaction.

Relentless criticism in childhood can internalize a parental scorn that no amount of success will silence.

Atticus adjusted his glasses as he peered down at the blanket. “Hey, is that the book Nellie told us abo

You want leaders driven by mission – not by adrenaline. No one wants to work with people who need to be heroes more than they need to be catalysts.

Catastrophe is change on the fast track. Disaster is a laboratory for adaptability.

You know, sometimes the right thing isn’t the thing you think is right. It’s the wrong thing you’re afraid to think of.

You’re the girl that I have been wanting. You’re the girl that I could see myself with forever. And most importantly, you’re the girl that I’ve fallen in love with.

Get busy achieving all the things in life you want to achieve, because one day you'll be fine and the next ...

Get busy achieving all the things in life you want to achieve, because one day you'll be fine and the next ....

I am speaking of something deeper. I am speaking of everything a being can give another. This is what I offer you. I offer myself.

Strong people don't put others down... They lift them up.

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong…it is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideas.

I encased my heart in stone so as to stop it from beating

One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way.

With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.