Top 100 Sheila's Quotes
#1. You were upset. I hurt you. Something must have happened to make you stay away from me. Is that right?" His nose was pressed under my ear and I fought back another round of tears because he just didn't fully grasp it. He could have been repeating Sheila's words for all I knew.
"You're leaving.
Amber L. Johnson
#2. Webster, as if he's done it every day of his life, as if he did it just the day before, trails his fingers from the small of Sheila's back to the nape of her neck.
Sheila turns her head, "Go slowly and be careful," she says.
Anita Shreve
#3. If now in some ways I drink too much, it's not that I lack a reverence for the world.
Sheila Heti
#4. In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they've never said before. That's big.
Sheila Heti
#6. We have to separate promises that may never be kept from God's promises, which will never be broken.
Sheila Walsh
#7. It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.
Sheila Jackson Lee
#8. Don't forget, I was a musician long before I ever met Prince. That's a big difference between me and those other women he's worked with. We operate on the same plane, as equals.
Sheila E.
#9. It's great to be happy, but not all the time. Let yourself feel. When you're sad let yourself cry, when you're mad let yourself scream. Experience your emotions, feel them. Just do not remain there with them. - Sheila Burke
Bryant McGill
#11. There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.
Sheila Johnson
#12. The Emmy that I lost, and I can't remember his name, I lost to the man who did the Olympics. So, it was great to lose to him. It's the Olympics.
Sheila E.
#13. When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.
Sheila Heti
#14. There are two kinds of family. There's the family of your flesh, and the one of your heart. One builds character, the other rewards it.
Sheila Roberts
#15. There are times when things are clear in your head and your heart and everything comes all aligned and it's easy and it just feels good to do something. But most of the time it's not like that. Most of the time there's conflict between your head and your heart.
Sheila Heti
#16. It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change.
Sheila Ballantyne
#17. It's lovely loving, isn't it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.
Sheila Hancock
#18. Intimacy is about sharing something with your spouse that you don't share with anybody else. It's letting him in. It's laughing together. And it's also feeling that deep hunger for each other!
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#19. The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that it's never too late and there's no right or wrong way to do anything.
Sheila E.
#20. If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.
Sheila Walsh
#22. Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. - C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY
Sheila Walsh
#23. The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark.
Sheila Fraser
#24. I love the light as much as I love the dark. It's such a beautiful balance.
Sheila Parker
#25. Marriages only work well when both sides desist from keeping scorecards of each other's performance.
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#26. Dale can't tolerate other people throwing up. He gets what's known as the Synchronized Heaves.
Sheila Turnage
#27. Red is all right, I thought to myself. Wherever and whatever he is or will be, he is all right. It is I who must be made well. There's a hole inside me that will have to be filled up. And an aching that will have to grow less.
Sheila Moon
#28. If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to pray to that end. It's God's heart to give good gifts to His children.
Sheila Walsh
#29. I am a huge Prince fan. It's a very rare thing for him to have people open for him. It's been the Time and Sheila E., and that's about it. Building a relationship with him has been like a dream come true. I've been looking for a mentor, and I feel like I have that in him.
Jill Scott
#31. If you like old cars detective, eastern North Carolina is perfect for you" he said smoothing his tie. "We have oodles of vintage vehicles around here, don't we Colonel? In fact I like to think of them as one of poverty's little perks.
Sheila Turnage
#32. Some people is born at the start of a long hard row to hoe. Well, I am older than God's dog and been in this world a long time and it seems to me that right from the git-go, Larkin Stanton had the longest and hardest row I've ever seen.
Sheila Kay Adams
#33. There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.
Sheila Heti
#34. It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.
Sheila Walsh
#35. That's how we lose people ... detail by detail, day by day, until they're pale, pale memories.
Sheila Turnage
#36. Dale's family is like that. Let the Law come within twenty yards of them, and every male over the age of six
uncles, brother, father, cousins
starts lying his fool head off. Dale says it's genetic. Miss Lana says that's poppycock.
Sheila Turnage
#37. You what?" Dale yelped, looking like I'd handed him something dead. "You ain't writing during summer vacation, are you? I'm pretty sure that's against the rules.
Sheila Turnage
#38. When I was younger there was something in me. I had passion. I may not have known what I was going to do with that passion, but there was something-and I still feel it. It's this little engine that roars inside of me and I just want to keep going and going.
Sheila Johnson
#39. Everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.
Sheila Ballantyne
#40. I asked Granny one time if she thought green might be God's favorite color since he'd made so many shades of it.
Sheila Kay Adams
#41. But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.
Sheila Walsh
#43. There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.
Sheila Ballantyne
#44. All I'm saying is: if there's a pool and people are in the pool and you're not in the pool, you want to be in the pool just like those people in the pool. It's just a fact of nature.
Sheila Heti
#45. Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.
Sheila Bender
#46. I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.
Sheila Nevins
#47. Women's fiction doesn't sound like anything but a slur to my ears.
Sheila Heti
#48. Much of our understanding of God's action in our lives in achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, 'The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.
Sheila Cassidy
#49. You have done well," Grandfather said. "We thank you."
"We were afraid sometimes," Jetsam replied.
"Good." Grandfather's eyes smiled. "That means you had the courage to keep trying.
Sheila Moon
#50. He's just another man who wants to teach me something.
Sheila Heti
#51. The so-called women's question is a whole-people question.
Sheila Rowbotham
#52. Don't condemn the gangbangers, they've got guns that are trafficked, that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that have strong gun laws. Why? Because we don't have sensible gun legislation.
Sheila Jackson Lee
#53. It's stupid to ban books that tell you the truth about life.
Sheila Kohler
#54. I know that character exists from the outside alone. I know that inside the body there's just temperature.
Sheila Heti
#55. It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.
Sheila Heti
#56. For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.
Sheila E.
#57. In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique.
Sheila Kitzinger
#58. It's important that women support women. It gives me a great sense of well-being to know that I can make a difference in people's lives.
Sheila Johnson
#59. Aside from blow jobs, though, I'm through with being the perfect girlfriend, just through with it. Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.
Sheila Heti
#60. This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions, by psychoanalysis, by pornography, by sexology, by science and medicine and the social sciences.
Sheila Jeffreys
#61. What do you mean, Jesus?' May Roper pulled the crocheted sea a little further up her legs.
'On the drainpipe. I've seen Him with my own eyes.'
'Have you been in the sun again, Brian?'
'Sheila Dakin thinks it's a sign.'
'A sign she's been at the sherry.
Joanna Cannon
#63. A rabbit, it has been said, can outrun a lion. But the rabbit's great fear of the lion paralyzes it, making it easy for the lion to catch and consume it.
Sheila Walsh
#64. I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don't know who that person is then you don't really know what's going on with the person being interviewed.
Sheila Heti
#65. I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's better. Instead of having sex, we have art.
Sheila Heti
#66. My genre of music is very eclectic. I might play some Latin jazz, or just go into a spontaneous jazz thing. That's the thing about coming to one of my performances. Not every show is the same.
Sheila E.
#67. More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others! And of course the great joke is that it is O.K. to be frail and wounded because that is the way the almighty transcendent God made people.
Sheila Cassidy
#68. One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
Sheila Heti
#69. As I watched them together, my earth found its axis and my stars found their sky.
Sheila Turnage
#70. Zoe also knew her stepmother did not love her. Or even like her very much. In truth, Zoe was pretty sure her stepmother hated her. Sheila treated her at worst as an irritant, at best as if she were invisible.
David Walliams
#71. Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body what she cannot yet put into words. Her eating disorder serves as her voice, her attempt to express and meet her needs and desires without directly asking for anything.
Sheila M. Reindl
#72. Life doesn't have to be a freeform stream of consciousness, where any thought that comes into our heads is entertained.
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#73. Parris said IAFIS makes fifty thousand fingerprint comparisons a day with a 95 percent accuracy rate.
Sheila Johnson
#74. Don't fall prey to the 'genius' syndrome and outsmart yourself by being too complicated
Sheila Davis
#75. Whether Jesus calms the storm or calms us in the storm, His love is the same, and His grace is enough.
Sheila Walsh
#76. Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.
Sheila Jackson Lee
#77. It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture
graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.
Sheila Kaye-Smith
#78. Sex is not about genitalia. It's about relationship. When God said 'the two shall become one flesh,' he didn't mean it only physically.
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#79. I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.
Sheila Heti
#80. In the morning the sunflower blossoms due to the sun's rays. This morning I just wanted to remind you that my heart blossoms with love for you everyday I wake up and it is going to do that forever.
Sheila Carey
#81. Don't rest on your laurels. There's always going to be someone behind you who's going to be better than you. So you need to get out there and keep working.
Sheila Johnson
#82. Except for that, everything's going great. Well ... there's been a murder and we're out of soup.
Sheila Turnage
#83. It has occured to Charlotte that men are full of petulant nonsense,and that their supposed strength is rather less than a girl's.
Sheila Kohler
#84. Lord Jesus, Your love is beyond my understanding but I believe it's true. Right now I offer You my shame, the filthy rags of my past. I choose to step out of this storm of condemnation and into Your peace. Thank You for loving me and for making me worthy, In Your great name, amen.
Sheila Walsh
#85. I like the jellyfish because it has no brain or heart. It's just a thing that takes in the ocean through its mouth. I like that kind of ambition and simplicity.
Sheila Heti
#86. My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you.
Sheila Hancock
#87. The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it's a miracle.
Sheila Stubbs
#88. Todd, I can only love you because of my heart. It's my broken heart that lets me love you. It's my broken heart that makes me want to live the best life I can. I only want to live that life with you, only you. If you're willing to teach me I'm ready and willing to learn.
Sheila Bliss
#89. Inglis is full of metaphors about hands because they've been so important to our human development. It'll come in handy, we say. This child's a handful, and This is getting out of hand, or You're in good hands.
Sheila Finch
#91. Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.
Sheila Heti
#92. It's so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can't live without some supernatural support.
Sheila Heti
#93. Whatever you tolerate will continue. If he's doing something wrong - not just something that's irritating - you need to stop tolerating it. This is not the same as trying to change him. It simply means that you change how you react to him.
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#94. Your purity is not based on what you've done with your body. It's based on what Jesus did with His.
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#95. It's difficult to talk about Ghost Ranch in a few words. You end up sounding like an advertisement for God and New Mexico. But then, maybe that's what Ghost Ranch really is.
Sheila Tryk
#96. Yes ma'am," I said, "Anna Celeste's party is Saturday, but I don't need a ride ... No ma'am. It's because Anna Celeste is my Sworn Enemy for Life and I'd rather go face-down in a plate of raw chicken entrails than go to her party. Plus I'm not invited ...
Sheila Turnage
#97. Concocting a good guest list is like seasoning a gourmet sauce. Too many similar ingredients and it's bland. Too much variety in the seasoning and the result may be overpowering.
Sheila Ostrander
#98. Within one's heart a light resides. Bring it forth for all the world to see.
Sheila Renee Parker
#99. When it's the stupidest, most difficult thing that could happen" - Suzanne looked up, mist glistening in her eyes - "and you still want to do it. Then you know it's really love.
Sheila Athens
#100. Mindful that it's running out, I am determined to have the time of my life.
Sheila Hancock
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