Glennis > Glennis's Quotes

“In the rose garden, the flowers are maneuvering toward the winter sunshine and the alluring sound of the koi pond’s waterfall makes you think it has a crush on you. You offer no resistance—you are done (at least temporarily) with the “regular” world.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

“Oversensitivity isn’t a problem, it’s your strength. It simply indicates you are more human than others. You should be proud of yourself.”
― Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

“Von Trotha said, “The Wahehe are a tribe of about one quarter of a million people! On the 17th of August 1891, they defeated the German expedition against them which was led by Zeleski.”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Still, in 1877, Engels wanted to protect us from false socialism. Still then, in Anti-Dühring, he wrote that not any nationalization is socialist, because in the contrary case both Bismarck and Napoleon would have to be arranged among the founders of socialism.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When did you get in?’ We mainly just talked to get familiar with each other.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

“I have watched people come to revival meetings burdened, broken, and hopeless, and then leave completely transformed. The difference is undeniable—their eyes are brighter, their posture changes, and their spirit is lighter because Jesus set them free.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

“Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer

“Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust white men.”
― Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“— Vou tomar banho agora e quero depilar as pernas.
— Deixa eu verificar as instruções para você.
— Estou autorizada a depilar as pernas. Com supervisão.
— Deixa eu ver – e toca a remexer, a revirar. — Tudo bem. Só um minutinho.
— Estou indo.
Na banheira do tamanho de uma piscina, do tamanho de uma piscina olímpica, funda e comprida, com pés em forma de garras. Clique, estalo, “ronda”...
— Ei! Cadê meu aparelho de barbear?
— Sou apenas a encarregada da ronda.
— Era para eu estar depilando as pernas.
Estalo, clique.
Mais água quente: essas banheiras de hidroterapia são mesmo confortáveis.
Clique, estalo, chega minha supervisora de depilação.
— Trouxe o aparelho de barbear?
Ela o passa para mim. Senta-se em uma cadeira junto à banheira. Eu tenho 18 anos. Ela tem 22. Fica me olhando depilar as pernas.
Havia muitas pernas cabeludas em nosso pavilhão. Precursoras do feminismo.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Prince Ronald said, Elizabeth, your hair is all dirty. You are wearing an ugly paper bag. You don't have any shoes on and you smell like a dragon's ear. Come back and rescue me when you're dressed like a real princess.

Elizabeth said, Ronald, your hair is all nice. Your clothes are all pretty. You look like a nice guy, but guess what? You are a bum.

They didn't get married after all.”
― Robert Munsch