"I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit."

-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Car Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Spinning Quotes

“They (teenage boys)donâ€™t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.”
“We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient too. If people who are willing to put time into demonstrations also prove willing to work on behalf of candidates in local elections - or to become candidates themselves - they will achieve far more. If all of this upheaval provokes more involvement, then we have a slim chance of ending up with more vibrant democracies eventually. The alternative, as you've hinted, is that democracy fails altogether.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.”
“I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.”
“Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce.”
“People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.”

Source : Sandra Brown (2010). “Tough Customer: A Novel”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
“I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.”
“Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present.”

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