Browse Destin Quotes

#1. I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversity.

Gretchen Rubin

#2. You're mixing your metaphors. It gives me a headache.

Holly Black

#3. Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

Steve Vai

#4. The big gamble in 'Focus' - it's a Will Smith movie that dares to be small.

Richard Corliss

#5. I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

Carrie Underwood

#6. It was hard to be around Jean because he looked at her and saw what Meg's future would have been if she hadn't been brave enough to run away - and if Jean hadn't been brave enough to stay.

Anne Bishop

#7. She didn't care if he brought her flowers. Or even an apology. She just needed him to be there. She needed him because that was the only thing that made sense.

Leslye Walton

#8. I love you, asshole."
Then Gavin laughed. "Right back at you, dickhead.

Jaci Burton

#9. ...if justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates at other times?

E.L. Doctorow

#10. I'm also thinking a lot lately that Descartes has so much to answer for - his idea, "I think therefore I am." Western culture is so built around this overly cerebral disembodied way we've created all of our institutions, and we're impoverished by it. We're so much smaller for it. So

Krista Tippett

#11. All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.

Charles Hodge

#12. The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

John Denver

#13. But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.

Scott Walker

#14. Don't. Don't play that game." His brow pressed to hers. "When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die.

Tessa Dare

#15. Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

John Muir