Steinke Quotes

#1. For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine - with tremendous humor and insight - the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.

Emma McLaughlin

#2. When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.

Darcey Steinke

#3. I always think to myself, being human, having crushes now, what is it about that person that I really want? What do they represent? More freedom? Someone to care for me more? It's never really about the person.

Darcey Steinke

#4. We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.

Ameen Rihani

#5. I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

Darcey Steinke

#6. More alone than she had ever been, separated from Heathcliff who had left her at Penistone Crag, Cathy had been wandering lost on the moor until at last she saw a light winking in the distance.

N J Dorrian

#7. What is love but a nostalgia for someones history? Their boyhood haunts and sullen adolescence, their teenage trips cross-country and fights with their fathers and especially their old lovers?

Darcey Steinke

#8. I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.

Darcey Steinke

#9. The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience. This

Mark Manson

#10. I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.

Darcey Steinke

#11. As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

Darcey Steinke

#12. Relationships are like wall paper patterns, you think your moving forward but your always caught in your own obsessions.

Darcey Steinke

#13. The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

Darcey Steinke

#14. When the sun shines, you let it shine on you

Gayle Forman

#15. Grace (the Gospel) is under attack today simply because it reveals the GOODNESS of God. Nothing reveals the GOODNESS of God more than grace.

John Paul Warren

#16. No decent art ever came out of self-pity.

Rene Steinke

#17. Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky.

Darcey Steinke

#18. The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

F Scott Fitzgerald

#19. Fine." He leans his face closer to mine, his eyes focusing on my chin, and my lips, and my nose. "I watched you because I like you." He says it plainly, boldly, and his eyes flick up to mine. "And don't call me 'Four,' okay? It's nice to hear my name again.

Veronica Roth

#20. Those who speak do not know.
Those who know do not speak.

Lao-Tzu

#21. I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

Darcey Steinke

#22. Everything was new, now I'm a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

Darcey Steinke

#23. The early evangelists recognized they could help the Jesus story make sense if Jesus was seen as someone who was chosen to appease the wrath of God - hence, the 'anointed one' who could do what no one else could do..

Doug Pagitt

#24. A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.

Darcey Steinke

#25. I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

Darcey Steinke

#26. When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.

Darcey Steinke

#27. You'll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

Darcey Steinke

#28. The story of Adam and Eve has less to do with evil than the cosmic human sadness that relationships are never straightforward, never pure enough.

Darcey Steinke

#29. What lies inside a cage of flames? The truth, the heart, but burned up before you can see it. Only traces remain in the ashes, a pattern you guess at or invent, an intangible thing that might leave a mark, but could just as easily blow away.

Rene Steinke

#30. Anxious systems also fail to get a clear view of things. Embedded in their dread, they lose a sense of proportion. They have little awareness of what is happening and how it is being mutually maintained. Emotionally cramps the broader view.

Peter L. Steinke

#31. Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.

Sathya Sai Baba

#32. Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?

Darcey Steinke

#33. The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie.

Brian Roberts

#34. Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.

George R R Martin

#35. There are tines in the prophetic ministry when words we receive for others must stay in the throne room...they are more powerful when converted into crafted prayer and spoken to the father than when put into prophetic language and ministered to human beings.

Graham Cooke