Shane Told Quotes

#1. Owing to thousands of generations of over-justification bred into them to keep from the maddening awareness of the true composition of the world, people had a tendency to give themselves the freedom to do whatever Shane told them, as long as it did not conflict too much with their self-preservation.

Thomm Quackenbush

#2. I really am good," he admits arrogantly.
"I told you, dude. You're really good. When you get older, you're going to be one of the best bass players I've ever seen."
"I know," he nods, agreeing wholeheartedly.

A.M. Madden

#3. From whichsoever of these motives it might be, true it is, that many of them came over to our religion, and were initiated into it by baptism.

Thomas More

#4. American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.

Ben Dreyfuss

#5. The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

Orson Pratt

#6. It was in his office, though, where he told me he'd never had anal sex. His cock was very large, but anal was so trendy and ubiquitous that I thought it impossible that there was anyone left in America who hadn't tried it.

Charlotte Shane

#7. Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

Shane Koyczan

#8. Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark.

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. Only in hindsight can we see the moments where our lives skewed off-course, where we traveled down the wrong path, where the worst lies we told were the ones we told ourselves.

Emma Shane

#10. I remember how my grandmother tried to explain our world to me she told me a story she said the ground and the sky love each other but they don't have arms so rain is how they hold one another.

Shane Koyczan

#11. I think you can walk and chew gum at the same time. I think you can oppose the president on some issue that you fundamentally disagree with, but also work with the other party on issues you do agree with.

Paul Ryan

#12. Let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus.

Various

#13. Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray."
Oh. "You get me the nicest things."
"Anybody can get jewelry. Posers

Rachel Caine

#14. A question like "do you love me?" was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

Shane Koyczan

#15. People had taught me what Christians believe, but no one had told me how Christians live,

Shane Claiborne

#16. She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.

Rachel Caine

#17. If she dreamed, she did not remember when she awoke.

Caroline B. Cooney

#18. I walked away from everybody I knew. I locked myself in a loft that I rented, like I told you, where I was rolling quarters for cigarettes. I was having to borrow money off of the rent guy ... the real estate agent that was renting me the loft.

Shane Bunting

#19. A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.

Henry Moore

#20. I'm sorry,' I told him one night over dinner. I was genuinely embarrassed, not least of all because I was sure I'd said it before. 'Sometimes I love you too much to listen to what you're saying.

Charlotte Shane

#21. I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.

Shane Koyczan

#22. Eve: She told me last!
Shane: Boyfriend!
Michael: Landlord!
Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact!

Rachel Caine

#23. I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies.

Tessa Thompson

#24. They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog burned off the river in summer. My mother rubbed the kites on my hands and arms and told me to think of my lungs as balloons. I just want to feel safe, I said.

Shane Jones

#25. And just as there was a cleanness about his body, so there was a cleanness in his thinking. Men coming to his blacksmith shop to talk and listen dropped their cursing for a while, not from any kind of restraint but automatically, as though this were not the place for it.

John Steinbeck

#26. That's what we were told - stand up for yourself. But that's hard to do if you don't know who you are.

Shane Koyczan

#27. DAVID SHIELDS: Salinger told Whit Burnett... that on D-Day he was carrying six chapters of 'The Catcher in the Rye', that he needed those pages with him not only as an amulet to help him survive but as a reason to survive.

Shane Salerno

#28. Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.

Chuck Palahniuk