Lashaun Conzemius > Lashaun's Quotes

“Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
― C.Toni Graham

“Instead of forcing yourself to feel positive, allow yourself to be present in the now”
― Daniel Mangena, Stepping Beyond Intention

“His smile was a whole conversation just inviting you to enter in.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“Yesterday was surreal. At times K was almost back to herself…funny…interested and relatively mobile. She was tactile and we kissed…she whispered naughty comments into my ear…achingly beautiful…I love her so much”
― Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale

“Although this scouting gig sounded like a financial hit, it made Nonie extremely nervous. She feared someone slip--that someone being Buggy--and others would find out Nonie's secret. And if the wrong person caught wind that she could see and speak to the dead, word would spread through Clay Point like ants at a picnic.”
― Deborah Leblanc, Toe to Toe

“Mary’s childhood was rough. She was frequently beaten and chastised by the nuns who served as her protectors and brutalized by the older girls in the orphanage.

Oh how I wept those first few years of my life. My tears came like tropical storms. Every pore in my body wept. I heaved and shuddered and sighed. Everything around me seemed dark and terrifying.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

“A police uniform, he was warned by the commander on his first day on parade, could change a person’s personality, and not always for the better.”
― Jeffrey Archer, Nothing Ventured

“I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?”
― Jodi Picoult

“السذج دواب تُساق إلى المجزرة، يُستعملون عندما يراد وضع سلطة الخصم في أزمة، و يُضحى بهم عندما تنتهي الحاجة إليهم.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Years ago, homosexuals were given special status within the tribe. They had powerful medicine. I think it's even more true today, even though our tribe has assimilated into homophobia. I mean, a person has to have magic to assert their identity without regard to all the bullshit, right?”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“I think of myself as more of a 12th-Century artist than a modern one—I write, not for my own pleasure or the pleasure of my audience, but to praise God.”
― Mark Helprin

“A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

“The membranes that separate us from insanity, from the fall, the monsters, are so thin. Only paper walls.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Old Dreams Die

“Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person, but it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“حبي يحيا حياتين من أجل أن أحبك. / لهذا فأنا أحبك حين لا أحبك، / وأحبك أيضًا حين أحبك”
― بابلو نيرودا

“الموت ... الموت ينتظرك كل لحظة”
― ليو تولستوي

“I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem might cruel and unfair, but that's how life is a part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad”
― Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

“I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good.
I know too much to be good. I know myself.
I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Eddie Carbone had never expected to have a destiny. A man works, raises his family, goes bowling, eats, gets old, and then he dies. Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.”
― Arthur Miller

“if a man loves a woman better than the whole universe, how much does he love the whole universe?”
― Stephen Crane, The Third Violet

“Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall
My buried life, and Paris in the spring,
I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world
To be wonderful and youthful afterall”
― T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-1962

“The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White

“great waves seemed to billow from him – impatience, frustration, criticism, irritation.”
― James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small

“Finland’s crisis (Chapter 2) exploded with the Soviet Union’s massive attack upon Finland on November 30, 1939. In the resulting Winter War, Finland was virtually abandoned by all of its potential allies and sustained heavy losses, but nevertheless succeeded in preserving its independence against the Soviet Union, whose population outnumbered Finland’s by 40 to 1. I spent a summer in Finland 20 years later, hosted by veterans and widows and orphans of the Winter War. The war’s legacy was conspicuous selective change that made Finland an unprecedented mosaic, a mixture of contrasting elements: an affluent small liberal democracy, pursuing a foreign policy of doing everything possible to earn the trust of the impoverished giant reactionary Soviet dictatorship. That policy was considered shameful and denounced as “Finlandization” by many non-Finns who failed to understand the historical reasons for its adoption. One of the most intense moments of my summer in Finland unfolded when I ignorantly expressed similar views to a Winter War veteran, who replied by politely explaining to me the bitter lessons that Finns had learned from being denied help by other nations.”
― Jared Diamond, Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change

“Somehow, creation manages to form without species intervention.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

“It made me think of Penelope waiting for Odysseus—Penelope at her loom, not missing a trick, lumpen suitors everywhere.”
― Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

“The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.”
― dan brown, The Lost Symbol