Ben Fallon Quotes

We're only given one mind and body at birth. And they're the only ones we get, so it's up to us to take care of ourselves. ~ Colleen Hoover

All I care about is you. Being with you every day. Seeing you every day. I'm not finished falling in love with you yet. ~ Colleen Hoover

If you don't show up today, I'll be there next year. And the next. Every November 9th I'll wait for you, hoping one day you'll be able to find enough forgiveness to love me again. But if that doesn't happen and you never show, I'll still be grateful to you until the day that I die. You saved me the day we met. ~ Colleen Hoover

And I hold her for so long, I have no idea if it's still November 9th anymore or if it's the 10th now. But the date doesn't matter, because I'm going to love her through every single one of them. ~ Colleen Hoover

He hasn't spoken a single word to me yet, but his actions have said a million thank yous. ~ Colleen Hoover

Fallon," he whispers, moving his lips slowly across mine. "Thank you for this beautiful gift." As soon as his words brush over my mouth, he covers me in a deep kiss. My whole body tenses from the burst of pain that ripples through me as he pushes inside of me, but the perfection of the way we fit together makes the pain a mere inconvenience. It's beautiful. He's beautiful. And somehow, with the way he's looking down at me, I even believe I'm beautiful. He presses his mouth against my ear and whispers, "No combination of written words could ever do this moment justice. ~ Colleen Hoover

He presses his mouth to mine and kisses me with so much emotion, I forget all the things. Everything. I forget where I am. Who I am. ~ Colleen Hoover

His hand squeezes my waist and he eyes me hard. "Fallon." He says my name like it's an entire lecture in itself. ~ Colleen Hoover

Maybe I don't know the first thing about falling in love, because I've been telling myself I'm not falling for him yet. That it's too soon.
But it's not. what's happening inside my heart right now is way too consequential to deny. I think I've been misjudging the whole concept of insta-love. Now if I can just figure out how we can finish these next few years with a happy ending. ~ Colleen Hoover

Evil can only prosper when good people stay quite and do nothing about it. Don't let evil prosper! ~ Timothy Pina

The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books - stories about boys in school who started to play football and then became the captain. I'd read them cover to cover. I just got lost in them. ~ Ben Lloyd-Hughes

I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character. ~ Ben Schwartz

Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley. ~ Ben Hecht

The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn't make them less good. But it also doesn't make the wrong less wrong. ~ Ovadya Ben Malka

Charlie says kissing is like baseball without the bat," Sam said.
"I think it's more like fotball without the pads," Tess laughed. "You ever kiss a girl?"
"Nah" Sam said. "Tried once, but Stacie Bing popped me in the nose and knocked me out. I woke up in the principal's office."
"Really?"
"Swear. ~ Ben Sherwood

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them. ~ Ben Aaronovitch

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. ~ Ben Nicholas

Be safe, she whispered. Then she closed her eyes and said in a low, broken monotone, I love you.
Kailani
Siobhan Fallon ~ Siobhan Fallon

War makes monsters out of men. ~ Patrick Ness

It would be excellent to do a 'Star Wars.' ~ Ben Mendelsohn

Republican Ted Cruz announced that he will run for president in 2016. So finally, Carnival is no longer the most dangerous cruise in America. ~ Jimmy Fallon

There will be no conversation in which you call me a racist, and I explain why I'm not a racist. That's a conversation for idiots. ~ Ben Shapiro

Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television. ~ Ben Shapiro

Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions. ~ Ben Hecht

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard. ~ Ben Carson

Fone Bone: HOLD IT! Thorn thinks Gran'ma Ben can help us get back to Boneville!
Phoney Bone: IT'S NOT WORTH IT! LET GO OF ME!
Fone Bone: Would you wait a minute?!! We can explain everything!
Phoney Bone: HELP! HELP! They've destroyed my cousin's brain!! OH MY GOSH! THey've already milked you haven't they?!! ~ Jeff Smith

I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold. ~ Ben Cross

Angels and demons are shaped by humans. Even god is shaped by humanity. Who you are has been codified by the humans around you ... family, friends, and even enemies. ~ Ben Tousey

There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage. ~ Ben Katchor

I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that walking-around-thinking-about-it-when-you're-not-thinking-about-it time that I think is important for writers. When you're half-thinking about what you're working on while driving, cooking ... just letting things sift and settle, come to you. ~ Ben Fountain

In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire. But in reality, it seems that these reductionist bio-medical stories can appeal to us all, because complex problems often have depressingly-complex causes, and the solutions can be taxing, and unsatisfactory. ~ Ben Goldacre

My parents were secular. I am an atheist. ~ Ben Elton

Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside. ~ Ben Lerner

Silent lies are more venomous than cruel truths ~ Ben Oliveira

I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one. ~ Ben Crenshaw

He said he thought it happened fast, both for my dad and Ben and for the drunk driver who hit them, but for the rest of the questions he said, We just don't know.
We just don't know.
Some things are gone for good. You can't get them back. You can't know what happened. Ever. ~ Ally Condie

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. ~ Ben Hogan

This is I think a dramatic point for conservatives. They are waking up to the fact that this guy, that Donald Trump has an ability to speak to people who they thought were theirs ideologically, people who they thought were a part of their team. ~ Ben Domenech

It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others. ~ Ben Aaronovitch

Without trust, communication breaks. Here's why: In any human interaction the required amount of community is inversely proportional to the level of trust. ~ Ben Horowitz

My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny. ~ Ben Lloyd-Hughes

Ben saw me, not just the curated version of myself I put out into the world, not just the stats of my life on paper. He saw straight through to the untouched depths of my soul, and I knew in that instant that he understood me. He knew me. Without even trying. ~ Jason Collins

Reality never changes. It is our attitudes about reality that change. ~ Peter K. Fallon

By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right ... Their concept of a diversity of views is the full range of politics and social values from center to far right. The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is. It is no way to maintain a lively marketplace of ideas, which is to say it is no way to maintain a democracy. ~ Ben Bagdikian

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences. ~ Ben Bernanke

The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter. ~ Ben Shapiro

Ben Says: As long as you have the breath of life ... You have the power to make major changes to improve your life. Now the question is ... what are you going to do with it? ~ Timothy Pina

I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that. ~ Ben Carson

Ben Roethlisberger is Tim Tebow minus Jesus. ~ Daniel Tosh