Thrusting Thursday Quotes

#1. A story is not a thing. A story is an act. It only exists in the brief moment of its telling. The question you must ask is what a story has the power to do. The truth of something you do is very different from the truth of something you know.

Matthew J. Kirby

#2. Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity-the illusory feeling that the course of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap that is closing around you.

Patrick Modiano

#3. A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

Livy

#4. Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Wayne W. Dyer

#6. This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

Art Buchwald

#7. I just think if you have an emotion and you let that go that moment might pass. If you don't open the door for the person to come in, it would have just been like, Nice to meet you - goodbye.

Heidi Klum

#8. Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.

Paulo Coelho

#9. Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Ignazio Silone

#10. I was ready to finally acknowledge my complete lack of control over this larger than life connection we shared. I wasn't giving in to him. It was a fight I couldn't win.
It was a fight I didn't even want to fight.

T.M. Frazier

#11. We live inside each other's thoughts and works.

Rebecca Solnit

#12. elegance and euphoria

Jennifer Niven

#13. The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

Timothy Keller