Kitty Doe Quotes

You're perfect exactly the way you are."
I smiled again and let my eyes fall shut. "Damn straight. ~ Aimee Carter

I'm sorry, I mouthed to him before I said out loud, The file's exactly where it should be. Stuck so far up your ass that it'll never see the light of day again. ~ Aimee Carter

One chance is all we need. ~ Aimee Carter

He's my family, and you don't just push family aside for some itch you want to scratch. That's not how real love works. Real love is support, even when you're fighting. Real love in honesty, even when the truth hurts like hell. Real love is being there through every miserable minute and every indefinite minute. ~ Aimee Carter

It's not about the credit. It's about making a difference. And we all did that together. ~ Aimee Carter

Together, we will prevail, and we will be free. ~ Aimee Carter

I realized death isn't the worst thing. It's the last thing. And endings are hard, that's all. ~ Aimee Carter

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your queen to capture the king. ~ Aimee Carter

What made you wake up one morning and decide to try to take down the United States government? ~ Aimee Carter

How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth. ~ Laozi

Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the whole. Nevertheless, a handful is enough to experience the nature of the flowers. Only if we refuse to reach into the bush, because we can't possibly seize all the flowers at once, or if we spread out our handful of roses as if it were the whole of the bush itself
only then does it bloom apart from us, unknown to us, and we are left alone. ~ Lou Andreas Salome

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves. ~ Patti Smith

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear. ~ Simon Blackburn

Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says
'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him. ~ Oswald Chambers

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. ~ Karl Marx

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge. ~ W. Edwards Deming

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy. ~ Dwight L. Moody

Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Death ends a life, it does not end a relationship. ~ Robert Anderson

The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies. ~ Sigmund Freud

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage. ~ Kitty Kelley

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink. ~ Richard Burton

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me. ~ Louis C.K.

The idea of UFOs is becoming a very prevalent phenomenon in people's consciousness. People believe in them. What does this mean? It means that people have a place to look to other than our government! People have a place to look for guidance and authority that is much more enlightened ... ~ Brad Steiger

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world ~ Sri Chinmoy

New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity. ~ Anna Quindlen

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended ... ~ Freya Stark

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job. ~ Moby

Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks. ~ Deepak Chopra

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present. ~ Debbie Ford

I read The Hunger Games voraciously and was extremely annoyed when interrupted by such inconsequential things as 'Christmas dinner.' (God, Mom, did you not understand Katniss was being pursued by the mutts? You have several children, why does it always have to be about collecting the whole set all the time?) ~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within ... Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason. ~ Jostein Gaarder

An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence. ~ Mason Cooley

In the doorway of Fortnum & Mason a young couple were kissing, oblivious to the world. The neon signs mounted on the buildings cast a glossy veneer over the streetscape, glowing through the smog. Around the statue of Eros there were crowds of youngers. The girls were a mass of bobby pins and ribbons, hardly dressed for the cold weather. The boys wore suits with thin ties. They were bantering on their way from the cinemas and theatres to the bars, dance halls and music clubs further along.
"I fancy you, Kitty Dawson," a lone boy shouted. ~ Sara Sheridan

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost. ~ Henning Mankell

Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment. ~ Therese Of Lisieux

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true. ~ Dallas Willard

In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability. ~ Plato

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility. ~ Alex Lemon

Not enough info makes for a lot of dead cats."
"Dead cats?"
"You know, 'Curiosity killed the cat.' And I have enough curiosity to start a feline genocide."
"Feline genocide?"
"Yeah. If you don't explain Apollo, the cat kingdom will crumble. Cats all over the world will suddenly plop down in unmoving masses of fur, their food will dry up in smelly chunks of fish, and when people call, 'Here, kitty kitty kitty,' no cats will come running; they'll just-" Walter suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Ashley asked.
Walter stared straight ahead. "I just realized . . . if all those things happened, no one would notice the difference." ~Walter~ ~ Bryan Davis

Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends. ~ Mark Driscoll

Racing does to white guys what movies do to black guys. ~ Daniel Tosh

Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. ~ Albert J. Nock

People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard. ~ John Harvey-Jones

The egoist does not tolerate egoism. ~ Philibert Joseph Roux

Peter, when Lara Jean's gone, will you still come visit me sometimes ?"
"Course I will."
"Even if you guys break up ?"
There's a pause. "We're not breaking up."
"But if you do ?" she presses.
"We won't."
She ignores this. "Because we never see Josh anymore, and he said he'd visit too."
Peter scoffs. "Are you kidding me ? You think I'm the same as Sanderson ? Me ? I'm a completely different league than him. I'm insulted you would even compare us."
Kitty lets out a relieved kind of laugh, the kind that sounds more like a sigh. "Yeah, you're right."
"Trust me, kid. You and I have our own thing."
I love him so much for that I could cry. He'll look after Kitty for me, I know he will. ~ Jenny Han

Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace. ~ Stephen Colbert

You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good ~ Jackie Ballard

These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks ... but Fala does resent them. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it. ~ Julien Offray De La Mettrie

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies. ~ Kitty Carlisle

When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look? ~ William Feather

The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision ... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents ... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow? ~ E. O. Wilson

I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive. ~ Damon Hill

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end. ~ Lucille Kallen

It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things. ~ George Plimpton