Torey Hayden Quotes

#1. She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.

B. Barmanbek

#2. A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.

Therese Anne Fowler

#3. Respecting religions is not simply a question of universal tolerance; it is a question of believing that all religions are true.

Narendra Modi

#4. Once I had a boy in here whose name was Liam. One of the first things he told me was that I couldn't make him do anything he didn't want. He wasn't going to do any work for me. He wasn't going to listen to a single thing I said.

Torey L. Hayden

#5. Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell.

Dorothy Parker

#6. It's a funny place, this world. Hate has rights. Love has none.

Torey L. Hayden

#7. My heart do be so big," she whispered. "It be so big and I do reckon I be about the happiest kid for it.

Torey L. Hayden

#8. We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

Joel Fuhrman

#9. She had a keen sense of revenge, that knew no limits. When crossed she retaliated with devastating force. Her intelligence made it all the more frightening, because she could quickly perceive what was most valuable to a person and that is what she abused.

Torey L. Hayden

#10. In the process of trying to understand others' difficult behaviour, I've found it is very helpful to realise that no one chooses to be unhappy. If someone is unhappy, they will be so because they genuinely cannot see how to do otherwise.

Torey L. Hayden

#11. Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives

Torey L. Hayden

#12. Yeah, it's hard. It's really, really hard. But 'hard' is not 'impossible'.

Torey L. Hayden

#13. Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.

Torey L. Hayden

#14. Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

Robert Crumb

#15. This here be my class.-Sheila "One Child

Torey L. Hayden

#16. Learning something new means you have to abandon, for a little while at least, the familiar and comforting. I happen to like this feeling. I remind myself that tomorrow, I will be someone who didn't exist yesterday.

Nick Stone

#17. Did he know that undoubtedly the time would come occasionally when the ghosts of Kevin's past would loom up and haunt him again?
"Yes," he said, "Don't they for all of us?

Torey L. Hayden

#18. Long live the Halflings! Praise them with great praise!

Anonymous

#19. The thing you got to understand about foxes,' Dixie said, 'is that they're innocent of what they're doing. They got no idea they're destroying what they love most.

Torey L. Hayden

#20. Safety is the most basic task of all. Without sense of safety, no growth can take place. Without safety, all energy goes to defense

Torey L. Hayden

#21. Everybody's life looks better when you're standing outside it, looking in, but that's never how it really is. We all got good things and bad things...

Torey L. Hayden

#22. The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

Christina Baker Kline

#23. Then we drove out past the sandy lots of stillborn subdivisions that had gone silent in '08. Eventually, a gray wall appeared, blocking the view of the gated community from the street.

James Patterson

#24. Peter, you're not crazy," William said. "Nobody's really crazy. That's just a word. Isn't it, Torey? Just a word. And nobody's a word.

Torey L. Hayden