Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Davies

Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.

Eric Idle

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Jodi Picoult

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.

Lewis Carroll

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

Julie Johnston

The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.

Jade Gribble

He is taking up some new styles. I just showed him a new offensive shot and he had three takedowns in the finals with it for six points.

Ron Averill

Having those three guys in the finals is going to nail our name to the wall pretty well.

Russ Howard

I was curling with my son (Steven) trying to get to the Brier. We had a good year, we made 12 finals and won a big bonspiel in Montreal and so things were looking good.

Anju George

I will look to make it to the finals first and will not go full pelt in the qualifying jumps.

Les Brown

We made it to the finals in football and lost. We don't want that to happen again.

Jeremy Reichert

He had to overcome the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds to get to the finals where he met the No. 1 seed.

A. Hodge

He hasnt played finals footy since he was in the Under-15s.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Robert Duvall

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

William J. Clinton

I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

Robert M. Pirsig

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

Brian Gibson

patterns or something in it to try to resolve this issue.

Joni Eareckson Tada

...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.

Henry B. Eyring

The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.

John Locke

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

Bertrand Russell

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Dalai Lama

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.