Rock And The River Book Quotes

#1. When it touches your soul, truth is like fire," he began. "As you know, when we rest too close to the fire we quickly become uncomfortable. Too close and it even becomes painful. But that doesn't always mean we should try to elude its flames.

Serena Chase

#2. When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.

Peter Doig

#3. Modern scientific accomplishments" --a wealth of methods coupled with a poverty of intentions which, having nearly exhausted the hell-potential of the earth, move on now to the first frontier of the heavens.

Kenneth Patchen

#4. Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

Brene Brown

#5. Great swaths of her life were white space to her husband. What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did. Still, there are untruths made of words and untruths made of silences, and Mathilde had only ever lied to Lotto in what she never said.

Lauren Groff

#6. With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

John Oates

#7. While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

Bill Dixon

#8. Engaging in the Internet means that you lose control of your brand. You

Phil Cooke

#9. I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins

Oscar Wilde

#10. Okay, then I'll just say I love you. There is nothing in this world more important to me than you are. I'm only content when you're near. My whole purpose is to be what you need me to be. It's not poetry, but it's from my heart. Will that do?

Colleen Houck

#11. If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

P.D. James

#12. There wasn't much there - just Macy's school texts, various biology and anatomy and nursing tomes. Fascinating stuff, I'm sure. Especially the one on thanatochemistry, whatever the hell that was.

Kelley Armstrong

#13. But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world
a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

Virginia Woolf

#14. My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

Charlie Munger