Cindy Vincent > Cindy's Quotes

“Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.”
― Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang

“I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

“Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After.”
― Dorothy Cannell, Withering Heights

“He was a dark and stormy knight. A latter-day rake with eyes the color of emeralds worth a queen's ransom. His smile promised voyages to the moon. And heaven alone knew how many females lay littered in his wake.

To a rousing burst of Rachmaninoff, he swept into my London flat one January evening and, with the hauteur of his greeting, captured my virgin heart forever and a day.

'Miss Ellie Simons? My car awaits. Shall we splurge on dinner or parking tickets?”
― Dorothy Cannell, Femmes Fatal

“Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia...
...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death.”
― Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
― Fred Rogers

“It had taken her a long time to realize that a prison sometimes isn't a prison at all. Sometimes, it's simply a door you assume is locked because you've never tried to open it.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Like so many champions of justice, she possessed empathy in the abstract, but sometimes fell short when confronted with the flesh-and-blood reality.”
― Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child

“It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.”
― Donna VanLiere, Finding Grace: A True Story About Losing Your Way In Life...And Finding It Again

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“We can find comfort in the midst of mourning because God can use our sufferings to teach us and make us better people. Sometimes it takes suffering to make us realize the brevity of life, and the importance of living for Christ. Often God uses suffering to accomplish things in our lives that would otherwise never be achieved. The Bible puts it succinctly: “Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing” (James 1:2–4 RSV).”
― Billy Graham, Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Character is who you are under pressure, not when everything is fine.” —RITU GHATOURY”
― Kory Kogon, Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager: A FranklinCovey Title

“I'll try to turn the other cheek....But I've only got two and they're both stinging.”
― Heather Blanton, A Lady in Defiance

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You need to take pride in what God has given you.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Don't fear whatever God lays before you today.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

“That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.”
― Lynn Austin, Wonderland Creek

“God wants us all to strive to grow more like Jesus, to become holy as he is holy, but God has a specific purpose for each person. How could it not be so? Everyone in a village cannot be a baker, because who would then make the candles or shoe the horses or grow the food? God says we are like a body. . . . Just as the villagers are part of a village and have different tasks, we all have tasks to do for the Lord God.”
― Melanie Dickerson, The Captive Maiden

“One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.”
― Ron Paul

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey