Top 100 Vicki's Quotes
#2. We learned three things together, that first day of Ethan's humanity: skin warms skin, silver eyes light darkness, and our heartbeats measured time together, so that we knew we were no longer alone.
Vicki Keire
#3. I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.
Vicki Lawrence
#4. Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn't mean that's what you had to be.
Vicki Pettersson
#5. 'When there's time for everything, there's value in nothing.'
Vicki Pettersson
#6. There's nothing wrong with you..not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter
Vicki Pettersson
#7. I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
Vicki Lawrence
#8. That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard. Joanna
Vicki Pettersson
#9. I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
Vicki Lawrence
#10. Looks can't hide your true identity. It's the eyes that give you away ... the soul behind them. The intent. The Shadows.
Vicki Pettersson
#11. I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings.
Linda Strong
Vicki M. Taylor
#12. Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum
#13. If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.
Vicki Robin
#14. In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what's on your mind and in your heart. Like so many essential and elegant systems, it's simple on the surface, challenging to use in the heat of the moment and powerful in its results.
Vicki Robin
#15. I didn't know his middle name or his favorite color, but I knew how his thoughts felt caressing my mind. The bright tang of his adrenaline coursing under my skin. The force of his heart, strong and rhythmic and a bit sad, pumping within my own chest.
Vicki Pettersson
#16. Even with tortured minds and broken spirits, even bound to the Surface, they ached for God's presence. It would be like being drawn back into the womb. It would be rest. It was the only real redemption there was.
Vicki Pettersson
#17. Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We are the grown-ups. Whatever you believe is true, now is the time to give your respectful, inquisitive, and compassionate self to it.
Vicki Robin
#18. Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
Todd Tiahrt
#19. He who does not move with the times is a dead man
Vicki Baum
#20. Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.
Helen Wells
#21. Love Poem Sharing one umbrella We have to hold each other Round the waist to keep together. You ask me why I'm smiling - It's because I'm thinking I want it to rain for ever. Vicki Feaver
Daisy Goodwin
#22. I'm serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.
Vicki Covington
#23. Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its present, and the certainty of change, have laid the groundwork for a dialogue and a vision that reaches farther than human eyes can see.
Vicki Goldberg
#24. Sometimes one decision changes your life, and it doesnt have to be one you make yourself-or even know about.
Vicki Myron
#25. Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!
Vicki Corona
#26. That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
Vicki Lawrence
#27. Sharing one umbrella,
We have to hold each other,
Round the waist to keep together,
You ask me why I'm smiling-
It's because I'm thinking,
I want it to rain forever.
Vicki Feaver
#28. You will always be your child's favorite toy.
Vicki Lansky
#29. I'm starved." -Juli
"How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth
"Popcorn isn't food, it's popcorn." -Vicki
Lynsay Sands
#30. All the men I know add that "hands that prepared it" line. They must know it's right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.
Vicki Covington
#31. And right then I realised that she was right. The good, the bad, that's just life. Let it go. There's no need to fret about the past. The question is: who are you going to share it with tomorrow?
Vicki Myron
#32. Because you can't unknow your life's experiences,' Grif said. This was his area of expertise.
Vicki Pettersson
#33. Towns aren't even towns anymore," Vicki said, sensing my distraction with this sad evolution, and giving me a hug around my middle. "Dallas wasn't ever one, when you get right down to it. It's just a suburb looking for a place to light.
Richard Ford
#34. Like Dewey, I was lucky. I got to leave on my own terms. Find your place. Be happy with what you have. Treat everyone well. Live a good life. It isn't about material things; it's about love. And you can never anticipate love.
Vicki Myron
#35. It was deep afternoon when shadows begin to grow, light becomes gold, and you realize that this particular day has reached its destiny. Like old age, it's not yet over, but there's no denying the time of day.
Vicki Covington
#36. Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions.
Vicki Pettersson
#37. Maybe none of us can choose who we love, Cas. None of the lucky ones, anyway. The only choice we have is how we serve that love. And Ethan's made his choice. What about you? Are you going to reject it, or make the best of what you've been given?
Vicki Keire
#38. Now, on the other hand, if we booted all the men out of corporate America, and we had all women there, quite honestly I think they'd be just as corrupt as what we have right now. I think it's best to have diversity and different points of view.
Vicki Donlan
#39. There is nothing on God's green earth that someone won't complain about including both God and green earth.
Vicki Myron
#40. Even now ... she [Kit] still had a need to believe that most people, that most of life, was good. That belief was a sort of strength, too.
Vicki Pettersson
#41. 'Sex drives us, love or no love. Power or no power. Money or no money. It's the most powerful drug in the world. Some pay for it. Some die for it.'
Vicki Pettersson
#42. You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
Vicki Baum
#43. A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.
Vicki Baum
#44. Find your place. Be happy with what you have. Treat everyone well. Live a good life. It isn't about material things; it's about love.
Vicki Myron Y Bret Witter
#45. If there's one thing I learned in Alanon, it's that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.
Vicki Covington
#46. Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse.
Charlene Austin
Vicki M. Taylor
#47. Bridget scoffed. "And you can lay odds that a man who's driven in his life's pursuits - whatever they are - will be equally driven when it comes to you." Stilling suddenly, she looked up from her work. "You can lose yourself to a man like that.
Vicki Pettersson
#48. 'Everything has its place. Let in only those things that are greatly desired, no more and no less. That's how to make sense of the world, and the only real way to achieve happiness.'
Vicki Pettersson
#49. I needed to become a fully functional, contributing member of my life
Vicki Wilson
#50. I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!
Vicki Baum
#51. A wise man once told me that you can't change what's happened but you can damn sure change what's yet to come.
Vicki Green
#52. Getting hurt physically, failing, persevering, and succeeding (despite overwhelming odds) are key factors in a male's growth toward manhood.
Vicki Courtney
#53. A woman who is loved always has success.
Vicki Baum
#54. I quickly found myself in the center of the room, trussed up to a sturdy, high-backed chair, which Joaquin happily assured me was an original Louis the Fourteenth. Oh goody. I'd hate to die bound to something from IKEA.
Vicki Pettersson
#55. It's possible to be afraid and brave at the same time.
Vicki A. King
#56. people are unable to process new information while they are experiencing shame.
Vicki Underland-Rosow
#57. Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...
Vicki Baum
#58. There's something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There's also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn't turn out half bad either.
Vicki Pettersson
#59. Most had faded to a light jade by now ... all except Chandra, I noted, with more than a little satisfaction. She was still a dazzling Day-Glo emerald, and I gave a little finger wave from across the room. She merely returned the finger.
Vicki Pettersson
#60. It's so difficult to love another person and yourself for who they are and not what they do or who they could be. To stay in this moment and know it in all its pleasure and its pain. The world is a beautiful place. How often do we say this aloud?
Vicki Forman
#61. 'Being single ... is about hope. It's about the future ... the person you might meet at Starbucks or online or in the next aisle at the grocery store.'
Vicki Pettersson
#62. If a deed is done, it's time to move on.
Vicki Myron
#63. 'It ain't ever over. You can't have no future if you don't have no past, and the past ain't never done with you...At the end of your life, all you have is what you know.'
Vicki Pettersson
#64. Maybe I shouldn't scare off my date so quickly by shooting guns and telling stories about vomit, but, hey, the sooner he knows the real me, the better.
Vicki Lesage
#65. Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
Vicki Lawrence
#66. When we start organizing, we tend to put tactics before reason. We see a messy space and launch a wild, full frontal assault before we understand the background of the problem and equip ourselves to meet the challenge. This is like going into battle unarmed without knowing our enemy!
Vicki Norris
#67. I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
Vicki Lawrence
#68. A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number of dark and creepy corners.
Vicki Myron
#69. You're a talented artist," he began, and I burst into more tears. He jumped up, agitated, and tried to give the book back to me. "What?" he demanded anxiously. "I mean it! You are! Orange is tricky!
Vicki Keire
#70. 'Plenty of men are good at acquiring money and cars and things, but only a few have real forward motion. You know. Thrust.'
Vicki Pettersson
#71. Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7).
Vicki Courtney
#72. There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
Vicki Baum
#73. I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'
Vicki Lawrence
#74. Do I look like a shallow Summer girl to you?' She tossed her silver hair, offended. 'I'm a Winter Court royal. I kill silly Summer flowerlets with frost when I yawn.
Vicki Keire
#75. All right," Marcus said, like he was doing me a grave favor. "But take it slow, sister. Any sudden moves and we'll drop you like a used-up ho on the corner of Fifth and Bridger.
Vicki Pettersson
#76. What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English
SWELL and LOUSY.
Vicki Baum
#77. One thing I've learnt in life is that you only know where things start. You never know where it's going to end up.
Vicki McAuley
#78. When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.
Vicki Goldberg
#79. Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Vicki Baum
#80. I believe fear of what we do not know may be the devil's best tool, meant to keep us back from those we long to approach.
Vicki Grove
#81. Miss me?" he whispered, giving me the once-over, eyes lingering on my chest. My heart skipped a beat. My glyph pulsed painfully.
"Like a urinary tract infection," I said, through gritted teeth.
Vicki Pettersson
#82. The seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.
Vicki Baum
#83. Your insides tie themselves in knots, but your heart refuses to understand.
Vicki Myron
#84. Serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.
Vicki Baum
#85. To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.
Vicki Baum
#87. I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
Vicki Lawrence
#89. Normally we are so identified with our thoughts and emotions, that we are them. We are the happiness, we are the anger, we are the fear. We have to learn to step back and know our thoughts and emotions are just thoughts and emotions. They're just mental states.
Vicki Mackenzie
#90. If you want to live for all, you will never meet anywhere
Vicki Robin
#91. Piano Man put up a fight but his resistance was futile. Hell hath no fury like a drunken girl at her bachelorette party in the mood to sing.
Vicki Lesage
#92. Success, she [Evie] claimed, made people want to trust you.
Vicki Pettersson
#93. Ms. Taylor's writing style is clear, without frills, and so streamlined that her story flows and flows and flows, without taking a break, to its satisfying conclusion.
Maeve of Tara
Vicki M. Taylor
#94. Chemistry was such a strange thing. I'd be willing to bet even Micah couldn't tell me why hundreds of men could leave me cold, while this one could string me along forever with only a smile.
Vicki Pettersson
#95. Vicki shines with intelligence as brightly as with beauty, a clear open face, black eyes, and a smile that makes you see what she looked like as a nine-year-old.
Frances Mayes
#96. Everybody ages. Eighty-year-olds don't look like twenty-year-olds, and they shouldn't. We live in a throwaway culture that stashes older people away and tries not to look at them.
Vicki Myron
#97. But wasn't a best friend also someone you could trust not to hurt you? I had hurt Vicki, yet here she was, opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.
Barbara Delinsky
#98. The kiss was like swollen storm clouds ready to erupt, and when he moaned into my mouth, it was dewy and thunderous and zinging with ozone.
Vicki Pettersson
#99. Dr. Beall gave him the first shot, followed closely by the second.
He said, "I'll check for a heartbeat."
I said, "You don't need to. I can see it in his eyes."
Dewey was gone.
Vicki Myron
#100. Love isn't just worth remembering and saving. True love is what saves us all.
Vicki Pettersson
