Shirley Strickland Quotes

#1. I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'

Shirley Strickland

#2. Writing checks with his mouth that his ass could never hope to cover.

Junot Diaz

#3. I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

Steven Heighton

#4. It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.

Sarah Dessen

#5. When you start thinking from other's point of view, you will understand him more easily and more completely.

Girdhar Joshi

#6. She knew the human soul will be merged, if it be merged at all, with the stars and the sea. Yet

E. M. Forster

#7. Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

Desmond Tutu

#8. In the middle of life it happens that death comes
and takes your measurements. This visit
is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is
sewn in the silence.

Tomas Transtromer

#9. But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. He was leaving me. I wondered if I should stop him. If I should wrestle him to the ground and force him to love me. I wanted to hold his shoulders down and shout into his face.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#11. He's skating like he's 36 again.

Mike Keane

#12. Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.

Andrea McLean

#13. When you say the word 'sorry' make sure you understand that an apology has 3 parts. "I'm sorry", "It's my fault and I won't do it again" and "How can I make things better". The last part is the most important.

Manasa Rao

#14. If we win by losing ourselves, by losing what we were fighting for, then we never really win.

Meg Collett

#15. We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Walter Scott

#16. I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said. And I wished that I had done more of those things.

Don Yaeger