Russian Prison Sayings

#1. When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.

Maria Alyokhina

#2. When you wake up to kingdom realities, you find that you are tracing the steps of both the Israelites and Jesus himself into the wilderness ... The wilderness is the place where God meets his people, Satan attacks, and kingdom allegiances are revealed. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 118]

Edward T. Welch

#3. I am a bit of a health nut. I really like to mix it up a lot. I do a lot of yoga, and I do a lot of Pilates, but I also like to run. That's kind of my meditation, I guess.

Jessica McNamee

#4. When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.

Haruki Murakami

#6. You don't stop being who you are just because you've run away.

Cinda Williams Chima

#7. If we indulge in any confidence which is not grounded on the Rock of ages, our confidence is worse than a dream, it will fall upon us, and cover us with its ruins, to our sorrow and confusion.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.

Jules Verne

#9. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. "Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing," he agrees.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.

Neelie Kroes

#11. Isn't it worth missing whatever joy / you might have dreamed, to wake in the night and find / you and your beloved are holding hands in your sleep?

Galway Kinnell

#12. I affirm that the crisis of the disc is a lure, it does not exist: the offer is intact, the increasing demand. But, each night, in the hangars of the music, the half of stock is stolen. Imagine the reaction of Renault vis-a-vis delinquents who would force the door daily to conceal the cars!

Jean-Louis Murat

#13. I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I love objects from different worlds, different eras, combined my way. Never uptight, achieving - hopefully - a kind of throwaway chic

Iris Apfel

#14. 12 Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won't have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life.

Anonymous

#15. I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!

Aaron Dontez Yates

#16. She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich New Yorker then, or a Midwestern pioneer. She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how to escape the prison of her own mind, how to expand, and experience.

Penelope Lively