Mersiha Wiersma Quotes

#1. We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

Sophocles

#2. I hope they know how lucky they are to have you. But that doesn't mean I will ever stop trying to have you for myself. You know as well as I do, Meena, that we belong together. I hope that day will come sometime soon. In the meantime: truce.
With all the love in my heart, Lucien

Meg Cabot

#3. I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!

Donald Glover

#4. I know you can take care of yourself," he said, with absolute certainty. His vivid eyes probed hers. With the same underlying resolve, he lifted a hand and brushed her cheek with his fingertips. "I just don't think ... you shouldn't have to.

Angela N. Blount

#5. Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.

Carlos Fuentes

#6. I'm a lesbian and I'd rather you bully me than a thirteen-year-old kid.

Dan Savage

#7. I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.

Chuck Liddell

#8. I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.

Oscar Isaac

#9. Her blonde tresses now lay unbound and flowing in comely waves down her back, like pale serpents against the blue sea of her costume.

Andrea Zuvich

#10. The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride ... It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer ... and read the Scriptures ... the only object in life is that Christ may be honored.

Billy Graham

#11. In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not "know your audience", it's "respect your audience, and really know your content".

Edward Tufte

#12. Cats appear to have a wonderful ability to weed out everything they don't need to know, while honing in on what is important to them.

Christina Hendricks

#13. And the feeling I had was not of wanting her so much as being surrounded by her, blundering inside her life without having moved.

Jennifer Egan