Ari Berk Quotes

#1. To get ahead, sometimes you had to retrace your steps.

Ari Berk

#2. He'd never called her. Wanted to. A hundred times. But every time he thought about it, his mind boiled up with every reason not to do it, every doubt he'd ever had about himself.

Ari Berk

#3. In Proverbs, a wisdom book of the Hebrew Scriptures, a cat would find a few "wisdom" passages as noxious as the Garden of Eden passages. Again the symbology of fruit being eaten

Leviak B. Kelly

#4. Each of them had been looking for a way out of their own black midnights, and each of them still had a long way to go until they found some kind of dawn.

Ari Berk

#5. Little things like time and generations don't matter very much with good friends who are fond of each other's company.

Ari Berk

#6. Amos surely left it behind for a reason, and more and more Mrs. Bowe felt she was following a path trod out for her by another. For the time being, she was willing to play the part allotted to her. But she would keep an eye on the boy in her way.

Ari Berk

#7. Or maybe a ghost was only a thing that endures, like the furnishings of this room, like the chairs or table; a little worse for wear, but still here because someone cherished it, or because it was made of such hardy stuff that time couldn't wear it down fast enough.

Ari Berk

#8. For didn't everyone have secret parts and shadows?

Ari Berk

#9. Stories wander around, go from one land to another, sometimes parts change.

Ari Berk

#10. Why? I mean, how could you know? I don't understand."

"Nothing to understand. There is no great mystery in friendship. You brought yourself here, just as I brought myself here to wait for you. I don't even mind that you've kept me waiting.

Ari Berk

#11. Dolores liked that story. Men were wolves and practical women took the knife to them, and those wolves, those sharp-toothed men, they didn't come back after that.

Ari Berk

#12. As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other sets - the grips, the gaffers, the actors, the directors - everybody steps into their role.

Brooke Adams

#13. - the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

Alexandra Bracken

#14. Like him, Uncle had eccentric tastes and liked old things. The difference, Silas was beginning to see, was that Uncle saw such objects as extensions of himself, of his body, essential, required, uniquely his. This thought made Silas uneasy.

Ari Berk

#15. That heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love.

Ari Berk

#16. Here, in this house, her recollections glowed like embers on the hearth, and each night, in their warmth, she'd take a memory or two down from the shelf and dance with them for a while.

Ari Berk

#17. Sense is the song you sing out into the world, and the song the world sings back to you.

Ari Berk

#18. Worry can pull a person's face into a mask of anxious lines, and he could tell she'd had some of that, but even worried folks could laugh.

Ari Berk

#19. Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

Andrew Sullivan

#20. The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#21. He could feel his father's history like ruts worn deep in the road.

Ari Berk

#22. The past is a chatty companion, I can tell you.

Ari Berk

#23. To love you is her nature. But hers is a love from which no good may come. And your desire for her will lead only to cold, dark places.

Ari Berk

#24. Honest error may play prologue to wonders.

Ari Berk

#25. Besides, love flourishes best in ignorance ... or in absence.

Ari Berk

#26. Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states.

Shantideva

#27. Silas deliberately ignored that question, which he knew was as much for him as it was for Uncle. It was going to be one of those nights where she'd sink her teeth into a topic and keep chewing and chewing at it.

Ari Berk

#28. The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.

Ralph Nader

#29. One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.

James Sinegal

#30. The better we understand the choices we have been making, either consciously or unconsciously, the more say we will have in the world we create. Neurocircuitry may be neurocircuitry, but we don't have to run on automatic.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#31. For when we read, don't we summon the past into the present? Hold out our hand and invite an author to sit with us for a time?

Ari Berk

#32. And somewhere, buried away deep inside him, a hidden chamber of his heart opened.

Ari Berk

#33. Love is fragile and rare and cannot live long in open air.

Ari Berk

#34. This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

John Irving

#35. She could feel the common blood song inside the place, the chorus of ancestors moving about in familiar constellations.

Ari Berk