I Pray famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  • Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.

  • I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

  • So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

  • There are people who can't stand the pain. What happens is they begin to develop some kind of technique to keep out of that hole. Once they do that, they're finished. They never go any further. They're done.

  • A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

  • Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.

  • They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

  • I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.

  • My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.