Carrie's War Book Quotes

#1. The halcyon days of childhood, a time when everything lay open before him, when the most minor episodes could be construed as events and every chance encounter ... gave rise to fresh insights.

Ivan Klima

#2. It was true that she had been passed from hand to hand as often as were the prostitutes in brothels, so why should they treat her otherwise?

Pauline Reage

#3. Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

Marshall Goldsmith

#4. You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here.

Jeanne DuPrau

#5. Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

Hattie McDaniel

#6. The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

Carol Shields

#7. I saw that all aspects of my life had been pulling me out of balance because I hadn't perceived them as part of a "whole," or the totality that was "me."

Brenda Strong

#8. Ruin still used Reen's voice - it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing ... it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else, and that she'd never actually seen herself.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Friedrich Schiller

#10. Only God can judge me.

Tupac Shakur

#11. We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Alexander Smith

#12. Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Nancy Friday

#13. WORRY serves no useful purpose is of no value and doesn't change a thing.

Debbie Macomber

#14. The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death.

Julian Lincoln Simon