Knappenberger Kristine Quotes

Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and other lives through stories. Made-up stories. Fiction. ~ Kristine Grayson

There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around. ~ Kristine K. Stevens

The key to enjoying the journey is being open to the unknown ~ Kristine Carlson

Prove to me that you deserved it. ~ Kristine Cuevas

The Bible explains that Satan is real, nurses a serious grudge and has impressive power. But having been created, he has limitations. He can never be equal to God in anything."
Kristine McGuire, An Insider's Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 3, "Know Your Enemy. ~ Kristine McGuire

Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places. ~ Lisa Kristine

jumped when the second gunshot fired. Fueled ~ Kristine Mason

For the rest of my life, Zanzibar will be the Swahili word for rain. The rain would drizzle, spit, mist, downpour, shower, torrent, gust, deluge and blast. At one point it hit the ground so hard it created a haze as it bounced back up two feet and fell a second time. ~ Kristine K. Stevens

If I didn't, would you be happy with someone like me? If we met under different circumstances, would you? ~ Kristine Pierce

You have to learn to expect the unexpected here. ~ Kristine K. Stevens

Editing. This never-ending maze through which I run, searching soulful nooks for the faintest shimmers of solace or escape. There is no such comfort. I tread this treacherous path of shadows, this menacing labyrinth that never stops beckoning. I'm like a woman whose soul is possessed, standing on the edge. It wants me. Calls to me. Consumes my every thought. Closing my eyes, my arms open wide. Submitting, I fall in. ~ Kristine Cheney

Freedom found me the day I realized I was not bound to witchcraft. The FATHER was waiting, He was scanning the horizon for the day I would realize I could come home. And He ran to welcome me into His loving arms. ~ Kristine McGuire

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language. ~ Lisa Kristine

Slowly, all the days became Saturdays, full of more sunlight than I could remember seeing in a long time. ~ Kristine K. Stevens

And just as I thought that my happy ending was beginning, it had to end so soon even though it hadn't started yet. ~ Kristine Cuevas

It is the mess that readers love. The fact that sometimes the people who love us the most aren't people we're related to, but people who join our family later. The book acknowledges how difficult family relationship are, and this fuss just proves it. ~ Kristine Grayson

Exactly. You like me. The word you use was like. You'll find someone better than me. Someone you'll love and not just like. ~ Kristine Cuevas

Aim at the ground, you'll never miss. ~ Kristine Thomas

He rolled his eyes. "Fiction lies for the truth. ~ Kristine Grayson

is a strange thing. It makes things seem so doable. And forgiveness makes life feel fresh and new. ~ Kristine McCord

What I did not realize was that I also hoped to have an epiphany, to discover a cause to devote my life to, a location where I thrived, a man to love, a life that would give me more fulfillment than the meager amount I had been living on for years. ~ Kristine K. Stevens

Cabinet is a conscious, explicit attempt to portray the Doctor himself as myth. "He's a mischief, a leprechaun, a boojum," says one character, bookseller and collector of incunabula, Syme. "The Doctor is a myth. He's straight out of Old English folklore, typical trickster figure really."29 Neither part of an ongoing narrative, nor specifically located within the series' past, Cabinet is in a position to challenge the portrayal of the Doctor. ~ Anthony Burdge, Jessica Burke, Kristine Larsen

It wasn't love, not quite, but it was almost there and it was desperate and I didn't know how to put it into words. It was the back and forth of him, the hot and cold, it made me crazy, made me feel crazy, and sanity never felt more pointless than when I was with him. ~ Kristine Wyllys

Love is truly eternal and lasts forever. It is the core of our connection and expression of life. ~ Kristine Carlson

Publicity doesn't work for books. It really doesn't. All it does is get your name in front of a reader who might then glance at your book. Or not. ~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Behind the hidden lie, lies the truth ~ Kristine Korobov

Writing [my journal] was the only way I could keep track of the last experience before a new one came along and erased the old one from my thoughts. ~ Kristine K. Stevens

I finally decided to adopt guidelines rather than set a budget. If it could be done at home, skip it. If I had done it before, skip it. If the odds were that I would never have another chance to do it, do it. Scrimp on meals, transportation and accommodations. ~ Kristine K. Stevens

If youre not living awake to the fact the life can change in a dime, then youre living asleep ... ~ Kristine Carlson

People ask what the hardest thing is about having an autistic child, and for me the answer is easy. What mom doesn't want to hear her baby tell her that he loves her or to feel his arms around her? ~ Kristine Barnett

When we saw a destitute-looking man trying to sell worn flip-flops, I vowed never to complain about a job again. When I considered the steady paycheck and quality of life it provided, most of my past gripes - primarily about unproductive meetings, back-biting office politics and panty hose - were just whining. ~ Kristine K. Stevens

Curing autism would be the same as "curing" science and art. ~ Kristine Barnett

My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life. ~ Lisa Kristine

The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about. ~ Lisa Kristine

There were a gazillion new details to take in and so many things to learn that I did not know what to make of it all. ~ Kristine K. Stevens

It's weird," I said. "In one way I feel almost crushed by all the freedom, but the longer I travel, the more I feel like I'm exhaling after holding my breath for years. It's like I'm breathing normally again. ~ Kristine K. Stevens

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world. ~ Lisa Kristine

Out of suffering comes creativity ~ Kristine Atkinson

Life can change in a moment, so we must appreciate every single day we are given. ~ Kristine Carlson

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on. ~ Lisa Kristine

For each rule of thumb, there is something that breaks that rule. ~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing. ~ Lisa Kristine

Like most people, my views about ghosts and haunted places were traditional while growing up. I believed ghosts were human spirits. Not that I talked to many people about the subject or my experiences. I assumed people would think I was weird. ~ Kristine McGuire

Reese, honey, victims are victims when they remain quiet. They gain power when they speak out. ~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The very first day, I came up with an obstacle course that everyone could do. The kids had to pick their way through five hula hoops lying on the ground; cross a mat by stepping on four giant, brightly colored "feet" that I'd cut out of felt; and then pick up an extra-large beanbag (actually a buckwheat neck and shoulder pillow) and bring it back to the group. I'd bought bags of cheap gold medals at Walmart, the kind you'd put in a little kid's birthday part goody bag. I made sure I had enough for everyone. So even when a child stepped on every single hula hoop and none of the giant feet, he or she got a medal.

A few weeks in, I noticed that Adam, a nonverbal thirteen-year-old, was always clutching that medal in whichever hand his mom wasn't holding. The medals weren't very study to begin with, and his was beginning to look a bit worse for wear, so after class I slipped a couple of spares into his mom's purse. Turning to thank me, she had tears in her eyes. "You can't imagine how much it means to him to have a medal," she said. "He sleeps with it. ~ Kristine Barnett

You can either stick to your goals, or you can just go through the motions and rest on your status. But it's all about work. ~ Kristine Lilly