Palpated Carotid Quotes

#1. We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

Paul Ryan

#2. A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.

Floyd Skloot

#3. Life does not have to go how you think it will," Tomasz says. "Not even when you are very sure what is going to happen.

Patrick Ness

#4. But fear lets us know we're alive. It tells me that you care about what happens between us because the mind doesn't waste time being scared about things that don't matter.

Cora Carmack

#5. Don't wrap my legs around you?" she panted. He grazed her lips with his. "I couldn't say it out loud. It's too sad.

Tessa Bailey

#6. You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

Meredith Whitney

#7. The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

George Orwell

#8. If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it.

Rebecca McKinsey

#9. It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#10. I liked stories. I liked the way they had the power to make sense of life.

Candi Sary

#11. Thursday afternoon, the dark clouds closed in, and by Friday morning a heavy rain was falling. The mountain peaks were hazy sentinels, disappearing into misty fog that clung to the valley.

Danika Stone

#12. The choices in the now are the choices of all your tomorrows combined

Scott Allan