Nyanda Thorbourne Quotes

#1. Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.

Dalai Lama

#3. The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.

Augusten Burroughs

#4. ... the garden gleams with summer jewelry. We live vy simply - but with all the essentials of life well understood & well provided for - hot baths, cold champagne, new peas, & old brandy.

Winston S. Churchill

#5. The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.

Theodore Dreiser

#6. Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep? Down in the boneyard ten feet deep!

Shirley Jackson

#7. Brenna Kelly, meet Alice Price-Healy. Grandma, meet Breanna. No one is shooting, stabbing or immolating anyone in this hotel room."
"Please," added Dominic. "I have to sleep here."
"HAIL!" Rejoiced the mice. "HAIL THE LACK OF STABBING, SHOOTING AND FLAME!

Seanan McGuire

#8. It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

Richard Grant

#9. Words have power. And when you put them out there, it makes them real for other people, and maybe it changes the world a little." He shrugged. "Or maybe it changes you."

Debora Geary

#10. Everytime we've had a misstep, rather than freaking out and not being able to recover, we've always looked to what's the next thing to do.

Alex Gaskarth

#11. There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.

Miriam Makeba

#12. But once Violet saw the inheret sadness in one thing, she couldn't stop.

Maria Semple

#13. When you ask for what you need and receive what people and the world have to give, you reduce stress and gain energy. ~Amanda Owen

Amanda Owen

#14. I don't know who you think you are, but I'm the king's niece, and the closest blood he has left, and you'll keep a civil tongue or I will cut it out.

Rebecca Hahn