Deanna Dolch > Deanna's Quotes

“It is wise to offer your gratitude when you ask and when you receive.”
― C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals

“Nothing is impossible, you only have to believe that it is possible, and then go for it.”
― Gary Edward Gedall

“I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“Wizard's Eighth Rule
Talga Vassternich.
(Deserve Victory)”
― Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire

“I know, but what is it all about? People loose and at
the same time caught. Caught and loose. All these people
and you don’t know what joins them up. There’s bound to
be some sort of reason and connection. Yet somehow I
can’t seem to name it. I don’t know.”
“If you did you would be God,” said Berenice. “Didn’t
you know that?”
― Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

“Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“إن مشكلة العيش لمدة طويلة هي أن المرء يرى كثيرًا من الناس يمرون أمام عينيه”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“The plays he had liked were the one called Measure for Measure, and another one called Macbeth. They were easy to follow, and what happened in them was kind of like what happened in junior high school.”
― Jane Smiley, Some Luck

“There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point.”
― Andrew Mann, Such Unfortunates

“There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China.
To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000.
See? Nothing to it.”
― Annie Dillard, For the Time Being: Essays

“and just as the table is about to finally ignore him, to look away and start eating, he sits up and loudly says, pointing an accusing finger at his plate, “It moved!” Timothy glares at him with a contempt so total that I can’t fully equal it but I muster enough energy to come close.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“I remember what it is like to be in love before any of love’s complexities or realities or disturbances has entered in, to dilute its splendor and challenge its perfection.”
― E.B. White, Letters of E.B. White

“Quoyle saw his life might be spent in the company of dynasitc dogs named Warren.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the bells and the screams that filled the air.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“I have learned not to think little of any one's beliefs, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Too often, however, the expansive nature of the branding process ends up causing the event to be usurped, creating the quintessential lose-lose situation. Not only do fans begin to feel a sense of alienation from (if not outright resentment toward) once-cherished cultural events, but the sponsors lose what they need most: a feeling of authenticity with which to associate their brands.”
― Naomi Klein, No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs

“Sin embargo, ¿quién había dado libertad a quién? ¿Cómo se podía utilizar ese regalo? ¿Qué prometía esa palabra de tres sílabas que, con ayuda de los epítetos que se quisiera, se podía interpretar, ampliar, estrechar, incluso convertir en lo contrario?”
― Günter Grass, Peeling the Onion

“I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Ife can sure be a downer.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“Laketon Elementary School was in the middle of a medium-size town in the middle of New Jersey. There was a reason Dave was in the middle of his fourth hour of not talking, but this isn’t the time to tell about that. This is the time to tell what he figured out in the middle of his social studies class.”
― Andrew Clements, No Talking

“¿Es que la vida era sólo una tempestad que arrasaba con todo, dejando tras ella sólo algo yermo e irreconocible?”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“They don't deal with any basic difference in human nature between black and white..., they only study the effects of environment on human nature. You place the white man in the ghetto, deprive him of educational advantages, arrange it so he has to struggle hard to fulfill his instinct for self-respect, give him little physical privacy and leisure time, and he would after a time assume the same characteristics you attach to the Negro. These characteristics don't spring from whiteness or blackness, but from a man's conditioning.”
― John Howard Griffin

“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger