Wade Wheelwright > Wade's Quotes

“There it was, burned into the text box, their code: “Sword of the Spirit.” They’d both attended weekly Bible study at the home of a lay person, and after the session one evening they talked about the expression that ultimately would become their code. They interpreted it to mean ‘the Word of God.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“When you love yourself more, other people can do the same”
― Daniel Mangena

“When you dance with the Africans, unless it is a ritual dance like a wedding or harvest or rain dance, there’s no right or wrong way to dance. There’s only movement. And the more you express your feelings as you move, the better you feel when you’re done…When I dance the African Way, I show my feelings with my body instead of hiding them in my heart. When I dance, I know I’m alive here and now. My body and soul are in harmony.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

“What the hell, if you are going to roll the dice with Lucifer, I say go the distance.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“The renaissance of Zack Blake at Renaissance Center, what a story! Maybe Mitch Albom will write a column.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Faith

“Nathan had to admit it was a highly effective war strategy. You didn’t need an army; just a way to turn the native, indigenous creatures against each other, wait until there was no serious resistance, and then move right in.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“Bir inanç ortalığı kana boyuyorsa, o inanca sarılıp kalmayın, insanı canından eden bir yasa yanlış bir yasadır.Yaşam, kadınım, yaşam. Tanrının en değerli lütfudur bize. Hiçbir ilke ne kadar yüksek, ne kadar parlak olursa olsun, kimseye can almak hakkını vermez.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“...her unfulfilled life has always been a prison of her own making.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. It just happens very fast, and things start to slip away. And I just open my eyes, and I see nothing. And then I start to breathe really hard trying to see something, but I can't. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it scares me.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“When a country goes mad, it has the right to commit every horror in its own wall”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“هكذا كان كبار المتنئبين وكبار الشعراء , يرون كل شيئ للمرة الأولى كل صباح , يرون أمامهم عالماً جديداً يخلقونه بأنفسهم”
― نيكوس كازانتزاكي, Zorba the Greek

“We have always been herbalists and healers, Trad...”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“I realized for the first time that I had been feeling like I'd been in a fight. For months, I'd had my guard up, waiting for the next punch life could throw”
― Todd Burpo, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

“Many things that are true feel like a cheat.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“I've learned, my dear—never give your heart away to a man who doesn't want or deserve it.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

“Bedouins believe their Heaven to be a lush paradise of trees and running water; mine was no different, though my sprinklers were timed.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“Such abilities are the true gifts of the spirit, my daughter.”
― Candace Lynn Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

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I loved it best in the winter, especially during what my father called the Harvest Moon, when the tide rises and recedes almost simultaneously.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

“Some days I succeed. Today I failed.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“We cannot choose our rebirth, but we are reborn according to our karma.”
― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

“The so-called “socialism” exceeded the mangiest recommendations of Keynes! Such a regulated state capitalism, such an intervention of the state in the economy like “socialism” does, Keynes had not even dreamed possible! The exceptional assistance of the state for the monopolies and their coalescence in a constitution—still after the receipt of Keynes! There is no better application of Keynes’s doctrine than the “socialism” of the twentieth century! Keynesian doctrine is an ideology of étatism, which strangely, was proclaimed as an essence of socialism! Keynes—the ideologist of the national debt, of the chronic budgetary deficit, and the inflation! His idea is the militarization of the economy, increasing workmen’s taxes, regulation of incomes through a “moderate inflation” in favor of the rich and the “solution” of the economic crises by regulation of the money circulation. All that was so well carried and applied in the “socialist” system that Keynes himself would have to wonder and to be proud of his “communist” disciples! Actually, Keynes, by observing the Soviet Union, had understood well the role of the state and the monopoly of the capital and sincerely recognized, by contrast with Stalin and the others after him, that they were used in a wonderful manner for the confirmation and for the perpetuation of the sovereignty of capitalism but not for its abolition. His “planned capitalism” is the same “planned socialism” of the twentieth century!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“It was the height of insanity, but he wanted to protect his true identity from people who might cause him harm until he was sure of things”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come.”
― Richard Wright, The Outsider

“And to think of all colors in the world, blood chose to be red." ~ The Fray Theory”
― Nelou Keramati

“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“It's also true that sometimes people felt things and, because there was no word for them, they went unmentioned. The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it - just to name it - must have been like trying to catch something invisible. (pg 107)”
― Nicole Krauss