489 quotes found
Singer-songwriter · English · 1988
English singer-songwriter (born 1988)
“Pray all you like, ask anything you want, but don’t forget that he never promised he’d say yes. He never guaranteed us anything. Not anything at all. Except one thing. Just one thing . . . . That h...”
“Zane wondered if Ty was a mama‟s boy. He tipped his head to the side, watching them as he picked out a piece of warm bread, and thought maybe so. Not that he would ever voice that opinion to Ty unt...”
“At the end of the day,” he continued, “although many believe in fate, it’s those who go through life with independent thought alone who are the strongest.”
“I’m lonely, and he can see it. Maybe everyone can see it.”
“Meg’s eyes were too bright. “I wish human beings couldn’t have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.”
“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self consciously to become a person, I will never be...”
“It just made me realize that I wouldn’t have anything if you left,” he said miserably. Jake gave a pained wince and looked down at the floor. “I wouldn’t have anything if I left, either,” he murmured.”
“we’re all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can’t tell which is which”
“And if they do, I hope heaven is a road trip. I hope it’syou and me and Renny and Ted with nothing but time on our hands. I hope it’s, I don’t know, crossing an immeasurable distance with your clos...”
“We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up”
“In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus”
“Sometimes you need to loose in order to win.”
“Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love. That’s how it works best.”
“We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the question...”
“There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.”
“Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.”
“Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.”
“As you go along your road in life you will if you aim high enough also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem have courage still-and persevere.”
“Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is your resume.”
“It is the threat of the use of force [against Iraq] and our line-up there that is going to put force behind the diplomacy. But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indi...”