Sherrie Chesser > Sherrie's Quotes

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel

“I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.”
― Wess Stafford

“You were you,
and I was I;
we were two
before our time.

I was yours
before I knew,
and you have always
been mine too.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“To be a woman is a great adventure;
To drive men mad is a heroic thing.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
― Dolly Parton

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!”
― Dolly Parton

“Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”
― Dolly Parton

“I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.”
― Dolly Parton

“Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
― Dolly Parton

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”
― Dolly Parton

“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.”
― Dolly Parton

“Smile -- it increases your face value.”
― Dolly Parton

“Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.”
― Ted Dekker

“The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.”
― Ted Dekker, The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth

“Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.”
~Blink”
― Ted Dekker

“Dive deep. Drown willingly”
― Ted Dekker, White: The Great Pursuit

“The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.”
― Ted Dekker, Showdown

“The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it”
― Ted Dekker, House

“I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.”
― Ted Dekker, Blink of an Eye

“ Born
of Black
and White, Eaten
with worms,
I'm a Saint, a Sinner,
a Siren of the
Word, The Circle
knows me, the rest
just wanna trip on
Grace Juice, Baby
Showdown
at midnight”
― Ted Dekker, Showdown

“God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.”
― Ted Dekker

“Like all of my fictions, Sinner is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.”
― Ted Dekker