Ann Uekusa Quotes

Everyone has problems ... Everyone faces challenges ... Overcomes them one by one ... And gets a little stronger each time ... ~ Hinako Ashihara

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever. ~ Ann Hood

A whole wall was crimson, gold, aglow with books
Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head
Warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood. ~ Carol Ann Duffy

I'd like to be your safe place to land, when life gets tough, or if ever you should fall. I want to be there for you, to ease your load and carry your burden. ~ Deborah Ann

Trials come to each of us. Living righteously does not mean that our lives will be free of problems or sorrow, but no matter what hardships we face we can always rely on Heavenly Father and His son. They will not forsake us, and They will give each of us the strength to face whatever may come."
June 2013 Ensign, "Our God Will Never Us Forsake ~ Jennifer Ann Holt

His hands cover mine until I release his hair, and he guides them to his face, closing his eyes like he's feeling my touch in his soul. He nods. These hands ... only these hands ~ Jewel E. Ann

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within. ~ Ann Radcliffe

She'd never felt about anyone the way she'd felt about him. Not even close. She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. ~ Ann Brashares

There are not enough faces. Your own gapes back
at you on someone else, but paler, then the moment
when you see the next one and forget yourself.

It must be dreams that makes us different, must be
private cells inside a common skull.
One has the other's look and has another memory.

Despair stares out from tube-trains at itself
running on the platform for the closing door.
Everyone you meet is telling wordless barefaced truths.

Sometimes the crowd yields one you put a name to,
snapping fiction into fact. Mostly your lover passes in the rain and does not know you when you speak.

- I Remember Me ~ Carol Ann Duffy

Have you noticed there are some people
Americans especially
who seem untouched by the war, or at least, unmangled by it? I don't mean to imply that Mark was a shirker
he was in their Air Corps
but he's simply not sunk under it. And when I'm with him, I feel untouched by the war, too. It's an illusion, I know it is, and truthfully, I'd be ashamed of myself if the war hadn't touched me. But it's forgivable to enjoy myself a little
isn't it? ~ Mary Ann Shaffer

I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair ~ Jayne Ann Krentz

You don't forget nightmares, but when they've been exposed to enough sunlight, they fade. ~ Jayne Ann Krentz

I remember when I was a kid, I could never find anything positive about chubby girls. If a girl was pudgy in books, she wasn't okay. She couldn't be happy or make friends unless she lost weight. ~ Ann Aguirre

Forgiveness happens in the beat of a heart, forgetting takes a lifetime. ~ Jewel E. Ann

My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you're so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash. ~ Ann Aguirre

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others. ~ Ann Landers

I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I know I am. Perhaps tomorrow I will become entirely miserable at the thought that he doesn't love me back - may, even, care for Remy- but at this precise moment I am succumbing to euphoria. My head and stomach feel quite odd. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer

To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall ... [p.218 ff.] ~ Ann Patchett

But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.
The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil's wife
which made me worse. I howled in my cell.
If the Devil is gone then how could this be hell? ~ Carol Ann Duffy

You and your ship will immediately familiarize yourselves with the guidelines for dealing with citizen civilians. And you will follow them. ~ Ann Leckie

He is perfect love and His perfect love kicks fear to the curb. ~ Ann Voskamp

Having lived in Florida for as long as you did as well, Jeb Bush has never really been that great of a politician. He's benefited from a lot of good luck.He torched his own campaign in '94, he had a weak Democratic opponent in '98, he benefited from the Clinton boom and got out before the Bush bust. ~ Joy-Ann Reid

Good posture is important for health reasons, as well as for your appearance, because it reflects your personal attitude. ~ Cindy Ann Peterson

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith. ~ Ann Patchett

Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy. ~ Ann Northrop

Sidney: The woman took a seat to reorganize, and Lucy cataloged an almost perfectly symmetrical face with cheekbones that could part hair. The woman's pale face hid underneath the lip-gloss and mascara that ran interference, distracting onlookers from a sagging spirit. She was dressed in a baggie sweater and jeans that made her look like a casual starlet waiting for the paparazzi to snap her photo. ~ Ann Garvin

It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run by the private sector will get better and cheaper over time. The fact that [Obamacare] starts this badly does not bode well ... We want healthcare run on the same system that gave us cell phones, flat screens, Jerry Garcia chia pets. Everything you submit to the free market ... keeps getting better and better. ~ Ann Coulter

Fox News's Bill O'Reilly refuses to show the Muslim cartoons on The O'Reilly Factor, saying he doesn't want to offend anyone's religion. Someone should tell him those endless interviews with prostitutes from the Bunny Ranch and porn stars aren't high on Christians' list of enjoyable viewing either. ~ Ann Coulter

I am Rose Howard and my first name has a homonym. To be accurate, it has a homophone, which is a word that's pronounced the same as another word, but spelled differently. My homophone name is Rows. ~ Ann M. Martin

Then Susan suggested a new dress. I reminded her that the Queen was very happy wearing her 1939 wardrobe, so why shouldn't I be? She said the Queen doesn't need to impress strangers - but I do. I felt like a traitor to crown and country; now decent woman has new clothes - but I forgot that the moment I saw myself in the mirror. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer

When we share those stories we've been scared to share, voicelessness loses it's wicked grasp. ~ Jo Ann Fore

I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid."
"Not that, just very focused on killing. ~ Ann Aguirre

Homo industrialis. We are so industrial (but not so wise) that we are creating a world more like the late Precambrian than the late 1800s - a world where jellyfish ruled the seas and organisms with shells didn't exist. We are creating a world where we humans may soon be unable to survive, or want to. ~ Lisa-Ann Gershwin

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. ~ Ann Landers

We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans. ~ Ann Coulter

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things ~ Ann Voskamp

If I am truly in Christ, mustn't my initial act, too, always be an act of thanksgiving, returning to Jesus with thanks on the lips? ~ Ann Voskamp

You'd better have a firm foundation when you go out into the world. There's no telling what you'll run into. ~ Ann B. Ross

Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end ... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry. ~ Ann Patchett