“I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from If Tomorrow Comes
“She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from If Tomorrow Comes
“We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from If Tomorrow Comes
“But there was not a police car in sight. Sure, Tracy thought in disgust. They’re never around when you need them.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from If Tomorrow Comes
“How long a honeymoon are you planning?” Mrs. Stanhope inquired. “About fifty years,” Charles replied.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from If Tomorrow Comes
“Mum looks like someone has told her that Santa will be shortly arriving with that guy from Pride and Prejudice in tow.”
― Melissa Keil, quote from Life in Outer Space
“She got up , walked around the table, and gave him a lingering hug, running her fingers through the back of his hair. She'd been finding more excuses to hug him lately.
"What was that for?" Dill asked.
"Because you looked like your heart stepped on a Lego.”
― Jeff Zentner, quote from The Serpent King
“تف به هرچی هروئینی است. بچههایی که هروئین میزنند به خوشبختی همیشگی عادت میکنند. کارشان تمام است. چون خوشبختی وقتی حس میشود که کم بودنش را حس کنیم. آنهایی که از این چیزها به خودشان تزریق میکنند، حتما در جستجوی خوشبختی هستند و فقط احمقترین احمقها برای پیدا کردن آن، چنین راهی را انتخاب میکنند. من هرگز گرتی نشدم. چند بار با دوستانم ماریجوانا کشیدم. آن هم برای اینکه باهاشان همراهی کرده باشم و به هر حال، ده سالگی سنی است که آدم خیلی چیزها را از بزرگترها یاد میگیرد. اما من میل چندانی به خوشحالی نداشتم. زندگی را ترجیح میدادم.”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Life Before Us ("Madame Rosa'')
“the destination was the local cemetery, where everyone was ordered to dig a mass grave and then was shot dead and buried in it.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, quote from The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Who is talking in verse 24? The writer of Genesis is talking. And what did Jesus believe about the writer of Genesis? He believed it was Moses (Luke 24:44). He also believed that Moses was inspired by God, so that what Moses was saying, God was saying. We can see this if we look carefully at Matthew 19:4–5: “[Jesus] answered, ‘Have you not read that he [God] who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said [Note: God said!], “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh”’?” Jesus said that the words of Genesis 2:24 are God’s words, even though they were written by Moses.”
― John Piper, quote from This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence
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