Top 40 Naslund Sena Quotes
#1. Of our pasts we seemed to know all we needed to know. Nothing was concealed, and though nothing was overtly revealed, all was known. In guilt and in forgiveness we counted ourselves equals, and always had. The sun himself envied us.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#2. God raised Him up, loosing the pangs of death because it was not possible for Him to be held by it.
Peter Simon
#3. I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.
Fiona Apple
#5. Yet intact Ahab, back from his first voyage, once said of just such a changeable breeze, This contrast is the way of life itself. All playfully, he added, But were I God, then would every day be invariantly good. Then he asked me if he might be the god of my world.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#6. If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?
Sena Jeter Naslund
#7. Reading, he claims, would broaden my experience of the world. The ideas to be found in serious books would deepen my thinking about every choice I make.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#8. That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#9. Her eys were as green as the sea, and forever I forgave the sea for not appearing blue.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#10. Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#11. Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#13. Mortality is a cause for humility, she said to me. None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father was taken. Death, like birth, comes to us all, regardless of rank or station in life.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#14. To be the cynosure of all eyes, do the extraordinary when you are least expected.
Ogwo David Emenike
#15. Good Lord, that has to be the homeliest woman I have ever laid eyes on. My horse's face is better-looking.
Kathleen Bittner Roth
#16. It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.
Tariq Ramadan
#17. The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
#18. Where we choose to be, where we choose to be
we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#19. Why were people always asking me about things in my past, the things I wanted to keep hidden? But then, why did my life have to be full of details I didn't want to share with others?
Sarah Holman
#20. Perhaps Vulnerability was a land that, for some people, could never be entirely traversed.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#21. Is this your boyfriend?" the first nun asked.
Clair Olivia looked me up and down. "No. This is my gay friend who decided he was straight and single-handedly wrecked havoc at an all-boys school in Massachusetts this fall. He's gay again and home for Christmas, so yay!
Bill Konigsberg
#23. I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.
Mika.
#24. Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#25. It was in her nature to love and to nurture; she would not leave those feelings within herself to fester and sour, but instead she chose someone who would receive her gifts gladly. She did not hold herself to be so special that only one special person could she find satisfactory.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#26. Time is something of an enemy" she opined, "for us mortals. And yet I love it" - she fluttered her fingers in the air - "I love this moment, and it's a child of time.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#27. Even the outright deletions that Ayn Rand's editor should have taken care of).
Anna Quindlen
#30. If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#31. What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, 'nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#32. So the misplaced assumption is that we have this whole new institutional element where these [financial] institutions are looking after their own financial interests before the financial interests of the principals, princi-pals whose interests they are really bound to observe first.
John C. Bogle
#34. Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#35. I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.
Scoot McNairy
#36. That night, though I was weary with the day, I took to the roof again ... My fingertips rested lightly on the wooden rail. I could not know if stars were equal to each other, but if they were, then the dim ones must be far and farther away, and toward those reaches I hurled my soul.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#37. I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby.
'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?
Sena Jeter Naslund
#38. Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?
Sena Jeter Naslund
