Pounamu Jade Quotes

#1. I'm not going anywhere until you hear me out."
Oh, please no. Anything except having to listen to her lecture. I push the button that calls the nurse.
"Can we help you, Alex?" a voice bellows through the speaker.
"I'm bein' tortured.

Simone Elkeles

#2. Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.

John Flavel

#3. When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.

Buck Brannaman

#4. A cat's secrets run so deep that even the cat itself is often unaware. Their mysteries are as natural as whiskers.

Wendy Beck

#5. It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part of the Cuban idiosyncrasy. Curiously, the films that have been censored the most have been humorous.

Fernando Perez

#6. There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

Nadeem Aslam

#7. He sensed the presence of death, he sensed the presence of undying love: something broke open inside him, and he thought of the invisible woman, incorporeal and passionate, as one might think of distant music.

Stefan Zweig

#8. You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

Jose Saramago

#9. I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

Sela Ward

#10. Sexism justifies itself by commandeering our logic and, quietly, the limits of what is constrict our ideas of what should be. Misogyny comes to taste like air, feel like gravity: so common we barely notice it, so entrenched it's hard to conceive of a world without it. So

Alexandra Brodsky

#11. Hope is the light at the end of the tunnel guiding the way.

Serena Smith