Top 100 Carolyn's Quotes
#1. If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#2. Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more.
Carolyn Keene
#3. It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.
Carolyn Hax
#4. Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#5. Nothing was ever definite, but in that moment, Jill's soul had found a permanent home.
Carolyn Brown
#6. Yet, it doesn't make us superfluous or unimportant, the fact that God doesn't need us,' I rushed on. 'Actually, quite the opposite. It's because He loves us in spite of not needing us that makes His love so, well, awesome.
Carolyn Weber
#7. I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.
Carolyn Wells
#8. Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#9. Jackson's father said she was built like Marilyn Monroe and had the temperament of Maureen O'Hara. The man was a prophet for sure.
Carolyn Brown
#10. I feel strange, like there's an unformed, unfinished, sad little emotion bottled up in me, and I need to fuck it away.
Carolyn Crane
#11. Living and getting to know folks' hearts, that's what matters." "He's not only handsome
Carolyn Brown
#12. Not showing up to a wedding post-RSVP guarantees expulsion from the couple's A list in the future.
Carolyn Gerin
#13. Allie's eyes followed him as he walked away. He filled out those jeans really well and she could imagine what that tight butt would look like with nothing on it at all. Good lord, she had to get a grip.
Carolyn Brown
#14. I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than women. With a woman, everything is either this or that, black or white. But a man can see shades of gray. That's what I call being sensitive.
Carolyn Jones
#15. Sage was right behind her and when she passed by Creed's chair he reached out and touched her arm.
She stopped and looked down at him quizzically.
"You sure look pretty this morning," he said.
Carolyn Brown
#16. A true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise she's giving away her power and her crown.
Carolyn Brown
#17. I just decided to take some time off. I've been modeling since '93, '92, and that's a pretty long time. I'm a single mother and I chose to focus on her.
Carolyn Murphy
#18. Do you think he's going to hurt Sam?" Bess asked. "I don't know. But it sounds like that's on the table.
Carolyn Keene
#19. So what if she had to wear another woman's underpants. She'd live and the sun wouldn't stop coming up in the morning.
Carolyn Brown
#20. There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.
Carolyn Hart
#22. The abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears
Carolyn Ainscough
#23. We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.
Carolyn Wells
#24. Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.
Carolyn Hax
#25. I'm used to desperate, buddy. Desperate's my factory default. But thanks anyway.
Carolyn Crane
#26. The industry's much quicker. The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.
Carolyn Murphy
#27. Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
#28. A lady kept up appearances and never lost her dignity - even when her world had just shattered around her in the stall of the women's bathroom.
Carolyn Brown
#29. Carolyn Maloney led the fight to make sure that DNA evidence kits are processed and passed the Debbie Smith Bill. She, when no one almost would listen to us on the whole issue of the Taliban and its treatment of women, she helped pass the Afghan Women's Empowerment Act.
Eleanor Smeal
#30. Leah looked up and didn't even have time to moisten her lips before Rhett's eyes shut and his mouth was on hers. It had the sweetness of ice cream, the fire of a double shot of Jack Daniel's, and the steam of a hot Texas summer night all rolled into one.
Carolyn Brown
#31. It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#32. Some people can work amid chaos or conversations, and some can't - and while there's no doubt an element of brain wiring to it, there's also the possibility of acquiring skills that improve your focus.
Carolyn Hax
#33. Having so much perceived free time gives the student a false sense that there's still all the time in the world to complete a given project. In essence, free time is his enemy.
Carolyn Carpeneti
#34. It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#35. A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory
and shame and shabbiness
of what it is to be human.
Carolyn See
#36. I know how to work a problem. Frustration is the enemy. It makes you do stupid things. So you don't let it beat you. Instead you search for landmarks, look for signs. The task takes every single bit of me I have left. It's good, this task, because it keeps my mind focused.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#37. He might tolerate someone dipping into his stash of dark-roast coffee, but nobody messed with his pot. Not even if she was cuter than a bug's ear, with that faint sprinkling of freckles across her nose.
Carolyn Brown
#38. Her loyalty to Yahweh prompts her to challenge the religious status quo and lead others into a whole new realm of allegiance to Yahweh that carries early hints of the teachings of Jesus.
Carolyn Custis James
#39. With you it's different. I come like a bloody bull with you. I want to reach inside you and make you feel what I do, to know heaven and hell and pleasure so intense you can't tell if it's agony or pure bliss." ... "When I make love to you, I am yours. You own me body and soul.
Carolyn Jewel
#40. Carolyn and I struggled with how or if to forgive while we dealt with the impact of the clinic's actions. Kevin Anderson helped us by introducing the idea of intolerant forgiveness: the ability to forgive the person who committed the error, but not the actual mistake.
Carolyn Savage
#41. There's nothing so rude as a gift you don't use or a life that you choose not to live. 'Cause you're blessed to bless and the best of possessions is having something to give.
Carolyn Arends
#42. I heard through the Verdie grapevine yesterday that the sexy cowboy who lives in this house likes gingersnaps."
"Sexy?" One dark eyebrow shot up. "That's according to the grapevine," she said.
"I kind of like the grapevine then.
Carolyn Brown
#43. Are you and Finn more than boss and hired hand?"
"You might say that."
"My ranch is bigger than his," Quaid teased.
"It's not the size of the ranch, darlin;. It's the heart that runs it," she answered.
Carolyn Brown
#44. Oh." Packard steps back. "I didn't come in here for
this."
"I didn't either."
There's this silence where it seems like one of us
ought to utter a sentence that begins with the word yet.
Carolyn Crane
#45. That's right, buddy. You bought yourself a dime root beer this afternoon. You also put Carolyn Poulin back in a wheelchair.
Stephen King
#46. It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.
Carolyn See
#47. While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
Carolyn Maloney
#48. While most people had moved on from children's books, Jake still loved them. They felt cozy like hot chocolate with mini marshmallows or a new jumbo box of Crayola crayons.
Carolyn Mackler
#49. I win by taking risks. By standing out. Mom hates how I ride Tucker right past the judge as many times as possible in a class. She says it's showboating and it's tacky. Some judges don't like it. Long ago, though, I decided I'd rather win being me than lose by playing it safe.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#50. Please!" I stop my pacing, glare at him. "Is that all you can think about at a time like this?"
Gabriel rolls up on one elbow and smiles at me. "I'm a guy. It's what I think about all the time.
Carolyn MacCullough
#51. A woman's mission centered on home and family - vital spheres of ministry to be sure, but only a slice of the vast mission God originally cast by calling women to rule and subdue the earth.
Carolyn Custis James
#52. Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.
Carolyn Byers Ruch
#53. That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
Carolyn Chute
#54. That's pretty bold of you, Jill Cleary." His eyes sparkled when he teased. "We've only known each other a few hours, and you're already talking about us getting pets together.
Carolyn Brown
#55. Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.
Eleanor Smeal
#56. Where's he getting the bricks? Packard asks.
That's what I don't understand. He brought his own bricks?
Carolyn Crane
#57. It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.
Carolyn Mackler
#58. A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Carolyn Wells
#59. I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.
Carolyn See
#60. A woman has but two loves in life: the one who broke her heart and the one she spends the rest of her life with.
- Carolyn Chase, former Broadcast Journalist and heroine Kate Theodore's mother
Liz Newman
#61. A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.
Mary Carolyn Davies
#62. We view men's gifts as vital to the church. In contrast, we caution women to exercise their gifts discreetly to avoid causing problems or trespassing some invisible line - which changes location from church to church, sometimes even within the same denomination.
Carolyn Custis James
#63. Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
Carolyn Maloney
#64. For a while there's nothing I can do but stand in the middle of the road, because going forward hurts too much. Going forward means continuing to try, when trying is so hard. The world is filled with idiots and assholes and monsters. Where are the guardian angels?
Carolyn Lee Adams
#66. I'm just saying it definitely makes your job easier. Easier to know where your sheath it when your dagger's in it." ~Sarka Rowan
Carolyn Spear
#67. Submission is not an occasional event. It is a lifestyle. It isn't a negative obligation on women, but the natural outworking of the gospel in every Christian's life. Submission is an attribute of Jesus, so it ought to show up in all of his followers.
Carolyn Custis James
#68. There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.
Carolyn Hax
#69. Her gaze collided with the duke's. His eyes were a clear, pale green. Why was he staring so intently when there was hardly another woman less interesting than she?
Carolyn Jewel
#70. Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.
Carolyn Wheat
#71. Cyrus's momma thinks I'm a gift from God. I didn't have the heart to tell her if I was then God was guilty of handing out gag gifts, Joyce said.
Carolyn Brown
#72. As in, what makes you the happiest? You said you hate college. What makes peace in your heart? That's your passion.
Carolyn Brown
#73. What kind of word is 'methodal'?" David asked. "A buzzword," Ashok answered, this time himself. "Methodal. Sounds like a drug." "That's what buzzwords are. Tranquilizers." "Thought suppressants, you mean.
Carolyn Ives Gilman
#74. The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.
Carolyn Jones
#75. Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#76. Cassini is different
it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.
Carolyn Porco
#77. What fascinates me is not so much humanity's engulfment in darkness, but what kind of culture we will construct from the rubble of this one.
Carolyn Baker
#78. With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.
Carolyn McCarthy
#79. Forest Gump had it wrong. Life is not a box of chocolate; it's a kaleidoscope. In the flip of a wrist, realities are shredded and the world takes on a totally new shape.
Carolyn Haines
#80. It's hot enough to make a woman want to go skinny-dippin' in the Red River. You want to join me to cool off?
Carolyn Brown
#81. It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#83. The key difference between captain and coach? The latter's opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,
Carolyn Taylor
#84. Where is Wildene?"
"Just step out the door and holler "Sooie! Sooie! She's a ho hog if ever I saw one. She'll come running.
Carolyn Haines
#85. All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.
Carolyn Porco
#86. What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.
Carolyn See
#88. One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#89. The truth is the truth whether you serve it up plain or top it with chocolate frosting. It's still the truth."
"So
Carolyn Brown
#90. Kenzo glances up from his chopping. "You look good enough to eat."
"Don't tell that to Stu's sleepwalkers," I say.
Carolyn Crane
#91. I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.
Carolyn Hax
#92. I can't say Ah now?"
"No," I say sternly.
"Even if it's purely innocent? A genuine Ah? Not even that?" He makes a pleading face. It looks silly on him; he's never been the pleading type.
He bats his cinnamon lashes once. "Not even ... "
I try not to laugh.
He keeps the face going and
Carolyn Crane
#94. Tomorrow. There's a Gone With the Wind museum here in the house.
Carolyn Brown
#95. There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.
Carolyn Hax
#96. I am not your wicked witch," Alexandrine said.
"Beg to differ there," Nikodemus said. "You sure as hell are."
"I'm your sworn fiend," she returned. Between Xia's body and hers, she moved her hand over Xia's crotch. "But I'm his wicked witch."
"Fuck, yes," Xia said.
Carolyn Jewel
#97. This is happening; this is not fiction. And the thing about life? It doesn't have texture at all. Go ahead, feel the space around you. Do it now. See? It's nothing but air.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#98. It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.
Carolyn Porco
#99. Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller!
Carolyn Hart
#100. Of course Trudy is here. God knows she'll do what's right. Good old dependable Trudy. She's never rebelled and never will. She'll be the good child to her dying day. Only reason I'm here is to
Carolyn Brown
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