Thorstenson Obit Quotes

#1. This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.

David Ignatius

#2. But, my dear, if you should be caught out in the storm!"
"Why, I don't know but I should like it! What harm could it do? I'm not soluble in water - rain won't melt me away! I think upon the whole I rather prefer being caught in the storm," said Cap, perversely.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

#3. The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.

Eliza Haywood

#4. I've never told anyone about that letter," he said quietly. "I know," Thomas replied. "If you had, you'd be dead.

Ken Follett

#5. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it ... I can resist everything but temptation.

Oscar Wilde

#6. You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

Steven Pinker

#7. The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward most, somehow upend what I expect from memoir and the project seems greater than just the exposition of a life.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#8. When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.

Lenny Kravitz

#9. Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#10. A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

Ovid

#11. I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God's Word that showed me I wasn't living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

Joyce Meyer

#12. Oh, this shouldn't be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you've met in the gym should never meet you in real life.

Sophie Kinsella

#13. I know you are not the same as him, Adam said. But in my head, everything is always so tangled. I am such a damaged thing.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.

Julia McNair Wright