Slacker Gordon Korman Quotes

#1. Most people who have survived abuse have great strength.

John Bradshaw

#2. The girls were wild for dancing, and nothing else. No hearts beat underneath those thin, bright dresses. They laughed like glass.

Genevieve Valentine

#3. Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

John Kennedy Toole

#4. Any story worth telling is worth embellishing.

Sputnik Monroe

#5. The waltz was the only way a young couple could touch one another, and even through gloves I could feel the heat of your grandfather's touch,'she'd tell Luc, with a wicked glimmer in her eye.

Fiona McIntosh

#6. The war that the officer corps prepared itself to fight was the war in which the prospects of actually having to fight were most remote. This made perfect sense.

Andrew J. Bacevich

#7. To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very strong capital base, and drove it into the bosom of Lloyds TSB Bank, are clearly bank robbers and asset strippers.

John Sentamu

#8. My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

David Oyelowo

#9. America is capitalism on steroids.

Lowkey

#10. They say, he whispers, his lips making the word-shapes on her shoulder, there is a river that heals all wounds. It is pure white, like snow or the blossoms of prarie-cotton. You are my white river. If I die, I will come back to wash my heart in you.

Margaret Lawrence

#11. Be determined to live a pure, holy and godly life; decide to honor, love and value other people, and to live a life that reflects Christ to others

Sunday Adelaja

#12. Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love.

Auliq Ice