Lydecker Quotes

#1. Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity. I come to these rooms for one reason, to remember what I don't want to become ... helpless, impotent, and weak.

James Cameron

#2. But I think I know so well the pain we children clutch to our chests, how it lasts our whole lifetime, with longings so large you can't even weep. We hold it tight, we do, with each seizure of the beating heart: This is mine, this is mine, this is mine.

Elizabeth Strout

#3. But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#4. What God predetermine proves true!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.

Jim Rohn

#6. It's why people in sexual extremis say Oh, God. It's not a cry to the Divine, it's a recognition of their own divinity.

Glen Duncan

#7. I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too.

Matt Cohler

#8. The one who expects God to do as he asks Him must on his part do whatever God bids him.

R.A. Torrey

#9. The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.

Ali Sina

#10. Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

Nicolas Cage

#11. Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.

Joan Lunden

#12. I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

Patricia Cornwell

#13. I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Calvin Trillin