39 quotes found
“If you decide to take somebody on, dont look behind you, because there wont be anybody there. Youll be all alone.”
“I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.”
“Gifford Ulrich didnt know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didnt sleep in alleys.”
“A person gets built and stands for a few years and then natures demolition team comes in.”
“Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet.”
“We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.”
“Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.”
“It must be great to spend time in a spot and if you walk away, its so much better than before because of something you did.”
“Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.”
“The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brain’s machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, t...”
“If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.”
“I can’t tell you what’s in all of God’s plans, but I do know part of them. He empowers you with reason and will. Those are your strengths. That’s what gives you the chance to be great in his sight....”
“Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.”
“Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.”
“He had no ability to give up. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to quit, he couldn’t. It wasn’t in him. It never had been.”
“If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.”
“Gifford Ulrich didn’t know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn’t sleep in alleys.”
“A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature’s demolition team comes in.”
“It must be great to spend time in a spot and if you walk away, it’s so much better than before because of something you did.”
