Julie Lessman Quotes

#1. I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard.

Simeon Rice

#2. Let's not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let's pray about it instead.

Lessman, Julie

#3. But the irony is that unless God's in the center of it, you can get singed pretty badly.

Julie Lessman

#4. I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several years, that paper ballots with a precinct optical scan counters and random audits is the best system that we can have.

Avi Rubin

#5. No one escapes being hurt in this life, because unfortunately, we live in a fallen world. But please believe me when I say there's a great gift in pain.

Julie Lessman

#6. He's waiting to love you like you've never been loved before.

Julie Lessman

#7. I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.

Orhan Pamuk

#8. Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

Vladimir Lenin

#9. But the truth is, real love denies self to give those we love God's best. So I said no to Collin and yes to God, and I truly believe that's why our marriage is so wonderful today. Because the Bible is clear - God honors those who honor him.

Julie Lessman

#10. I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#11. Forgiveness is really just another word for freedom.

Julie Lessman

#12. Peace ... He should market it! ... He does every day. Through grateful pieces of the puzzle like you and me.

Julie Lessman

#13. I wish they made fajita cologne, because that stuff smells good. What's that you're wearing? That's sizzlin'!

Mitch Hedberg

#14. So I learned that even after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. He'd have laid up enough memories never to be bored. Obviously, in one way, this was a compensation.

Anonymous

#15. You can. It's not a matter of feeling it, it's a matter of doing it - making the decision to bend that iron will of yours in God's direction so that He can hear your prayers and unleash blessings.

Julie Lessman

#16. I was young once, you know. Truth be told, I still am. Now, if I can convince my mirror.

Julie Lessman

#17. Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

Brian Chesky

#18. I'm a competitor!

Rob Mariano

#19. My Dear Friend,
Don't ever allow yourself to forget how incredibly special you are, even for a single second. Without you, the world would not be as magnificent. Let yourself remember to love again, starting with you loving you.

Miya Yamanouchi

#20. [T]welve year old Libby O'Shea coasted on a homemade swing, toes touching a blinding-blue heaven dolloped with clouds.

Julie Lessman

#21. The moon hung heavy over the lake like an overripe orange, trickling its golden stream of light across inky depths.

Julie Lessman

#22. Pray that God is the most important thing in your life, so much so that hurting him wold hurt you. When that happens, and your choices line up with his, it produces an amazing ripple effect of blessings
in your life, that of your family, and for the man you eventually marry.

Julie Lessman

#23. Promise you'll save your heart for God's best, a man who loves God as much as you do. Because therein lies a love like no other.

Julie Lessman

#24. Trust is not an obsession, it's an extension of love. When we truly love someone, we give them our heart to hold in their hands. And when that love is returned, that very trust is balm to our souls.

Julie Lessman

#25. I've barely ever thought about Him ... That doesn't mean he hasn't thought about you. You own a piece of God's heart, like a piece of puzzle that's missing. A piece nobody else can fill.

Julie Lessman

#26. I'm not sure what God has in store for you but I do know one thing - it will be good. I've learned He doesn't skimp with those who have a heart for Him. After all, His Word says He honors those who honor Him.

Julie Lessman

#27. She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.

Mary Shelley

#28. I think of life as very much like a game. The one who created it gave us the rules by which it is to be played, rules designed to help us win, rules to help us be happy. The problem is many times we choose to play by our own rules, and then we're at a loss to understand why we never win.

Julie Lessman

#29. true confidence blooms in the soil of a relationship with God, following His path rather than one's own, pursuing His truth rather than the world's.

Julie Lessman

#30. She had just enough madness to make her interesting

Atticus Poetry

#31. She hadn't wanted this and yet deep down inside, she knew that she did, and that was what scared her more than anything.

Julie Lessman

#32. For years he had possessed her dreams, but she'd been the master of those dreams. Now, he possessed her memory, and there was nothing she could do about it.

Julie Lessman

#33. For once I've met a girl whose beauty on the inside is so powerful and deep, the surface beauty is almost secondary

Julie Lessman

#34. Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

Russell Crowe

#35. An uninspired ruler works to develop those relationships which will be most to his advantage. A great ruler determines the most desirable relationships and assumes them into being.

C.S. Friedman

#36. Sounds to me like you're talkin' about the wrong things. Why don't you talk about other things? Like you could make a list of things you won't fight over and then you only talk about those things.

Janet Evanovich