214 Quotes

#1. Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. Sexy for me is a curvy woman - doesn't have to be skinny, which I hate anyway. I'm glad [the fashion industry] is changing slowly a little bit now to get more into the boobs and hips again.

Heidi Klum

#3. Every one of these things I said was a knife at myself. Everything I had ever secretly held against my brother was coming out: how ugly I was and what filth I was discovering in the depths of my own impure psychologies (214).

Jack Kerouac

#4. I could give you a thiught sheath to put that in,"Isabelle offered. "I got tons."
"CERTAINLY NOT," said Simon.
Clary shot him an irritated look. "Thanks, but I'm not really a thigh sheath kind of girl,"
-pg. 214

Cassandra Clare

#5. One 2 x 4 beam can support 607 pounds, but two 2 x 4s nailed together can support not just 1,214 pounds (which is what you'd expect), but a whopping 4,878 pounds! So it is with us. We can do so much more together than we can alone.

Sean Covey

#6. In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)

Albert Einstein

#7. Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts.

Dr. Myles Munroe

#8. Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.

Robert Baden-Powell

#9. I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.

Tamsin Egerton

#10. Peace and Love, get high and fly with the dove.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. Well, I think there's something wrong with everyone, don't you?

Nicola Yoon

#12. Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.

John Green

#13. Doesn't matter how many people are in the crowd anymore, Delilah. Ten or ten thousand, I'm still only singing for one.

Sarah Ockler

#14. Failure can become nourishment if we are willing to get curious, show up vulnerable and human, and put rising strong into practice. (P.214)

Brene Brown

#15. Peter Crouch, the Marmite of football.

Derek Rae

#16. He went up the metal stairs as quietly as he could, reducing the likely clang to a duller pulsing boom, by placing his feet very carefully. He found 214 and knocked on its door, firmly but discreetly, like he imagined a bellboy would, in a fine hotel.

Lee Child

#17. From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the US, it spent $214 on an Israeli.

Ahdaf Soueif

#18. English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.

John Ruskin

#19. I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.

Margaret Thatcher

#20. What makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection.
BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON
Chapter 27 Page 214

Dean Koontz

#21. It keeps him happy, Dahlaine, and happy people are nicer than gloomy ones. Haven't you noticed that before?

David Eddings

#22. It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

Pope Francis

#23. It was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.

Kate Morton

#24. Treat yourself like a fast person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck
you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.
Push: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, p. 214

Chalene Johnson

#25. Now is not about gathering courage, it's about staying one step ahead of my fear.

Courtney Summers

#26. I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214

Melody Beattie

#27. Your ideal body weight as an ectomorph at 6' 0 will be 214.378 lbs. There. Happy? And if you lose or gain a pound, I will have you killed. It is important to be ideal.

Mark Rippetoe

#28. Like a child joyfully waving a sparkler, the fairy godmother crisscrossed her wand, and the sturdy orange pumpkin exploded into an elegant gold coach supported by delicate wheels.

Barbara Ensor

#29. the city," he said diplomatically.

Victoria Thompson

#30. I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

Laurie Halse Anderson