Padlocked Heels Quotes

#1. Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

Susan Cheever

#2. Our primary problem as Christian women is not that we lack self-worth, not that we lack a sense of significance. It's that we lack awe.

Jen Wilkin

#3. In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity ... in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for.

Max Hastings

#4. Listen, it is not the charcoal that draws the picture. It is you. It is your hand, which is attached to your body, and in that body is a beating heart ...

Jandy Nelson

#5. If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

Henrik Ibsen

#6. The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger-

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. Nani's allegiance is to her anger
and
anger
runs deeper than blood and skin.
It's set in bone
and bone, once broken,
never
heals the same.

Holly Bodger

#8. I've come to realize that the only way to deal with life's problems is to walk close to the Lord.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

#9. What about the Symmetry?!

Atsushi Ohkubo

#10. While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

Henry Rollins

#11. When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?

Tatiana De Rosnay

#12. Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.

Wallace D. Wattles

#13. In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle.

Martin Sorrell

#14. Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions.

R.L. Trask