Miriam Lass Quotes

#1. Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

John Calvin

#2. The sergeant major

Erich Maria Remarque

#3. We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

Sterling W. Sill

#4. I didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

David Hewson

#6. Have you never seen a movie? Read a comic book? That's always how it starts - just a little temptation, just a little taste of evil, and then BAM, your light saber turns red and you're breathing through a big black mask and slicing off your son's hand just to be mean.
They looked at him blankly.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.

Mac Barnett

#8. The way a man relates to his dad will often affect how he relates to his Father God.

Stormie O'martian

#9. How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

Paul Guilfoyle

#11. True love is the only heart disease that is best left to "run on"
the only affection of the heart for which there is no help, and none desired.

Mark Twain

#12. You got to get it while you can

Janis Joplin

#13. [W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

Anthony Lane