215 Quotes

#1. Joy was something she willed herself to show us, something she raised from deep inside herself as a promise for what could be. Now her life seemed to have opened up into it as if it had been waiting for her. (215)

Andre Dubus III

#2. I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.

Montel Williams

#3. Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

Stephanie Dowrick

#4. All roads come to an end, and all ends are the same, trailing off into nothing; even an echo eventually will be silenced (Kincaid 215).

Jamaica Kincaid

#5. The Community's endorsement of the cultural role of public service broadcasting is useless unless it is guaranteed a central role in the digital platform' (Venturelli, 1998: 215).

Anonymous

#6. The Letters of Miss Jerusha Abbott to Mr. Daddy-Long-Legs Smith 215

Jean Webster

#7. Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)

Wendell Berry

#8. To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design, had no clear social program that realistically could be implemented (215).

Manning Marable

#9. I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.

Beth Ditto

#10. My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.

John Cena

#11. Trust isn't a black and white thing ... Everyone has the capacity to let you down at one time or another ... [but] if you can't trust, you can't love (pg. 215).

Amy Kathleen Ryan

#12. A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Chris Christie

#13. Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. I was filming 'The Avengers' when I got the call for 'Rush,' so I went from 215 pounds, which is how much I weigh when I'm playing Thor, down to about 185 pounds to be able to fit into the car. That was all in about four months.

Chris Hemsworth

#15. The best remedy for people who have become your headache is to take a 'chill pill' from your willingness to endure their misery.

T.F. Hodge

#16. I used to say the evening that I developed the first x-ray photograph I took of insulin in 1935 was the most exciting moment of my life. But the Saturday afternoon in late July 1969, when we realized that the insulin electron density map was interpretable, runs that moment very close.

Dorothy Hodgkin

#17. I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Princess Diana

#18. We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [ ... ] understanding.

Madeleine L'Engle

#19. He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. I wanted to fly up beyond the clouds, where nothing would hear me but the stars

Julie Kagawa

#21. Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

Marianne Williamson

#22. So much din from so many philosophical brainboxes! Trust in your philosophy now! Boast that you are the one who has found the lucky bean in your festive pudding!

Michel De Montaigne

#23. I couldn't ask her anything. There wasn't a single question to which I'd get the answer I wanted.

Amy Bloom

#24. When it came to love you had to know when to fight, and you had to know when to let go. I was letting go. I never wanted to look at him and hate him; but if I kept myself in this situation I would. I would hate him for never giving me what I wanted. And that wasn't fair.

Rachel Hayes

#25. Anyone can shoot a gun but the real power comes from non-violent means.

J.C. Phillips

#26. Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless - unless they've got to.

J.K. Rowling

#27. You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

Christopher Moore

#28. People are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky