Moen Quotes

#1. had gone to work in Worcester's famous Washburn & Moen barbed wire factory: Swedes were preferred by employers there because, unlike the Irish, they did not tend to get either fighting drunk or unionized.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#2. God will make a way, where there seems to be no way. He works in ways we cannot see

Don Moen

#3. My Christmas prayer is that I would remain close to God, and He close to me. With all the suffering in the world today, there is the temptation to fall to fear ... we need to be near the Lord.. we need the Hope of Christmas.

Don Moen

#4. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

William Osler

#5. It's like that old saying, Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

Gayle Forman

#6. I had a very good sexual education. My mother was very advanced in that regard. She conveyed to me the sense of reverence and wonder about my body and the powers of my sexuality not only to give life, but also to be a whole person and to enjoy pleasure. It was put to me as an almost holy act.

Gioconda Belli

#7. I'm not good for you, Allie," he whispered. "And you aren't good for me.

Jenni Moen

#8. will to create. Yes" - as if she expected disagreement - "the will, because it is an act of will. It's more than being called upon by some convenient artistic muse. It's making a decision to offer up a bit of one's essence to the judgement of others.

Elizabeth George

#9. You wonder when it's going to get easier for us, but it's not easy for anybody, Allie. Everyone has their shit. It's different shit for different people, but it's still all shit. Being able to deal with it... that's where greatness lies. And we're great.

Jenni Moen

#10. A novel is a long confession in which you expose your heartaches, complain about all the things that are wrong in the world, then try to put those things right for the sake of the reader, as well as your own well being.

Chloe Thurlow

#11. Wow," she said. "That's one sweet pussy tattoo. Only you could make that look manly.

Jenni Moen

#12. Living and being alive were two entirely different things

Jenni Moen

#13. No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

Fidel Castro

#14. Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#15. In our haste to modernize under the banner of science, we seem to have gone too far in casting out all mystery and magic from our world.

Denny Sargent

#16. Say it, forget it; write it, regret it," my mother had always said.

Jenni Moen

#17. Everyone has their shit. It's different shit for different people, but it's still all shit. Being able to deal with it ... that's where greatness lies.

Jenni Moen

#18. Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.

Ian McEwan

#19. I'd given her my heart, and she'd given it back. Trouble was, I didn't want it. I had no need for it if it wasn't connected to her.

Jenni Moen

#20. I'm a dead end, Adam." And at that moment, that was exactly how I felt inside ... a dead end.

Jenni Moen

#21. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

H.L. Mencken

#22. Alexis, I would have sent balloons but we agreed ... no strings. Adam

Jenni Moen

#23. What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism to be refreshingly easygoing and forgiving.

Matt Dillon

#24. He once told an interviewer, "I'm impatient with the past and irritable with the present. The future is where my concern lies, and I'm very optimistic about it.

Sharon M. Moen

#25. Interesting. Why would I tell him to call me 'Allie'? I was pretty sure that girl didn't even exist any more.

Jenni Moen

#26. Her fingers gripped my back. I knew that there would be marks, but I didn't care. She could leave her mark. I wanted her to. No one else would ever touch me again. No one else would ever touch her. I wanted to mark her for myself.

Jenni Moen