The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
FRANCINE PASCAL I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
FRANCINE PASCAL Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the st...
FRANCINE PASCAL When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as...
FRANCINE PASCAL I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b...
FRANCINE PASCAL I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
FRANCINE PASCAL I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let ...
FRANCINE PASCAL I always had a fascination with twins.
FRANCINE PASCAL No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it...
FRANCINE PASCAL I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories ...
FRANCINE PASCAL He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And mod...
FRANCINE PASCAL It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.
FRANCINE PASCAL Elizabeth walked past just as Mrs. Ferguson, pulling down her wide-brimmed hat, announced that teena...
FRANCINE PASCAL In Bruce’s opinion, the only fun in dating was the sport of it. The more it was like a tennis matc...
FRANCINE PASCAL I think I’m going to cut down on my dating,’ Annie said. ‘I used to need a lot of attention. Y...
FRANCINE PASCAL How inappropriate,’ Lila said coldly. ‘Who’d ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelcha...
FRANCINE PASCAL She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he’d be fine. Her specialty was subdui...
FRANCINE PASCAL David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jad...
FRANCINE PASCAL He saw her right after the seventh-period bell rang. She seemed dressed for the sole purpose of blen...
FRANCINE PASCAL She imagined herself whirling breathlessly beneath the flashing lights of some impossibly chic Manha...
FRANCINE PASCAL I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the ...
FRANCINE PASCAL I just can’t wait to get out of Sweet Valley,' Jessica explained. 'I feel like I’ve been dancing...
FRANCINE PASCAL It was another one of her father's curses:I'll make you into a freak and not let you tell anyone.
FRANCINE PASCAL The thought of gaining weight was all she needed to lose her appetite completely. Not that Jessica �...
FRANCINE PASCAL The last thing one knows is what to put first.
PASCAL The heart has its reasons that reason does not know. -Pascal.
PASCAL This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our...
FRANCINE BUSBY Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't ...
FRANCINE BUSBY It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They wan...
FRANCINE BUSBY I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to ...
FRANCINE BUSBY My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statemen...
FRANCINE RIVERS My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.
FRANCINE JAY Leaving the group, he reclined on a couch, drank morosely, and watched people. He noticed the games ...
FRANCINE RIVERS Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.
FRANCINE RIVERS Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
FRANCINE RIVERS I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Chri...
FRANCINE RIVERS The Lord will provide.
FRANCINE RIVERS I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
FRANCINE PROSE 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The nov...
FRANCINE PROSE He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.
FRANCINE RIVERS We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck ou...
FRANCINE RIVERS Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of ...
FRANCINE RIVERS True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.
FRANCINE RIVERS I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here...
FRANCINE RIVERS Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.
FRANCINE RIVERS Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned...
FRANCINE PROSE Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with...
FRANCINE RIVERS These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring th...
FRANCINE RIVERS To claim that I sympathize with child pornographers is the most despicable low anyone could sink to.
FRANCINE BUSBY The style for fall is a combination of dressed-up sophistication and flair. The Liz Claiborne line c...
FRANCINE CROCKER Julia was blind and deaf to to the truth. She was ignorant. Did one reprove a blind woman for inabil...
FRANCINE RIVERS She has not one particle of vanity in her. She covers her scars because they disturb others. No othe...
FRANCINE RIVERS Better to have trouble with man than trouble with God.
FRANCINE RIVERS Who are you to say whether she is of use? She is alive! That is statement enough.
FRANCINE RIVERS None of them, not even he, seemed to realize they weren't just physical beings, that God had left a ...
FRANCINE RIVERS The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. Th...
FRANCINE RIVERS Life is like a pond, and every decision and act we commit, good or bad, is a pebble flung into it. T...
FRANCINE RIVERS Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.
FRANCINE RIVERS She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regr...
FRANCINE RIVERS Search all you will for retribution or meaning to your life, but until you find God, you live in vai...
FRANCINE RIVERS Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond...
FRANCINE RIVERS I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.
FRANCINE RIVERS Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, o...
FRANCINE RIVERS Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God.
FRANCINE RIVERS What does the body matter if the soul is dead?
FRANCINE RIVERS Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus cou...
FRANCINE RIVERS Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
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FRANCINE RIVERS For as he told the story of a simple Judean slave girl. Marcus Lucianus Valerian, a Roman who didn't...
FRANCINE RIVERS How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS [It] began to seem amazing how often it was assumed that having a vagina automatically meant I was l...
FRANCINE PROSE We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. ...
FRANCINE RIVERS ...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.
FRANCINE RIVERS Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did m...
FRANCINE RIVERS As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. H...
FRANCINE RIVERS It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was th...
FRANCINE RIVERS Tell me everything about this woman you once knew. Tell me everything she ever told you about Jesus ...
FRANCINE RIVERS We're each single threads woven together in a tapestry God has created. Only he sees the full pictur...
FRANCINE RIVERS Calamity is blessing when it brings one to God.
FRANCINE RIVERS I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty a...
FRANCINE RIVERS Just because you don’t believe in the Lord doesn’t mean his power isn’t working for you.
FRANCINE RIVERS For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altere...
FRANCINE PROSE I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be norm...
FRANCINE PROSE Adopt the “one in, one out” rule: when you purchase something new, get rid of something old.
FRANCINE JAY Most importantly, by not buying, we redefine ourselves: by what we do, what we think, and who we lov...
FRANCINE JAY Every time we toss (or choose not to acquire) an unnecessary item, we gain a little bit of freedom: ...
FRANCINE JAY Curb impulse purchases by giving yourself a cooling-off period: instead of buying something immediat...
FRANCINE JAY Unfortunately, the word has no direct counterpart in English, and an in-depth understanding requires...
FRANCINE JAY All things were ready for us at our birth; it is we that have made everything difficult for ourselve...
FRANCINE JAY All things were ready for us at our birth; it is we that have made everything difficult for ourselve...
FRANCINE JAY Less stuff = more freedom. Possessions are like anchors, tethering us to our houses (to store them),...
FRANCINE JAY Less stuff = less stress. The fewer possessions you have, the less you need to worry about maintaini...
FRANCINE JAY When we live minimally, we live more mindfully.
FRANCINE JAY It’s not about living in a sleek loft with three pieces of designer furniture. It’s not daring, ...
FRANCINE JAY the true honour of things; we become alternately merchants and merchandise, and we ask, not what a t...
FRANCINE JAY Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” �...
FRANCINE JAY Advertisers, marketers, and corporations will do everything in their power to make you want more. Bu...
FRANCINE JAY Want less. Advertisers, marketers, and corporations will do everything in their power to make you wa...
FRANCINE JAY All things were ready for us at our birth; it is we that have made everything difficult for ourselve...
FRANCINE JAY At some point I realized that I wasn’t organizing my life; I was organizing my clutter.
FRANCINE JAY But to be richer, happier, and freer, all you need to do is want less.
FRANCINE JAY Most importantly, by not buying, we redefine ourselves: by what we do, what we think, and who we lov...
FRANCINE JAY The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.” –Marcus Aurelius...
FRANCINE JAY I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart...
FRANCINE RIVERS Death began to look like a friend.
FRANCINE RIVERS I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as...
FRANCINE PROSE A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest s...
FRANCINE PROSE God's will isn't hidden away like the myths and philosophies and knowledge of the world. Jesus told ...
FRANCINE RIVERS He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.
FRANCINE RIVERS [Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often gi...
FRANCINE PROSE These are maximum penalties. Judges have the necessary leeway to render appropriate verdicts. As the...
FRANCINE MANSEAU It's a payment to a donor that is illegal. Advertising is not illegal.
FRANCINE MANSEAU Our study supports the science advisors' position. When cities make those reductions, the results sa...
FRANCINE LADEN We will take each customer, each case and take a look at what they paid, how many treatments they ha...
FRANCINE GIANI What we're looking at is having to change all of our computer systems to capture that information in...
FRANCINE GIANI ... What we're trying to do is prevent people from getting to that stage and identifying these healt...
FRANCINE FRANCIS Our average occupancy for February was 88 percent.
FRANCINE FRANCIS In the emergency department, we have seen increased incidence of respiratory and flu-like symptoms ....
FRANCINE FRANCIS It's a challenge to manage it appropriately. We want to manage ourselves as efficiently as we can to...
FRANCINE FRANCIS This week we've been at capacity frequently. It changes frequently because patients come and go ... ...
FRANCINE FRANCIS Denim has a luxury feel with added details, updated shapes and a variety of washes.
FRANCINE CROCKER I have enormous amounts of support. But, yes, if they do split their side, I could conceivably hit t...
FRANCINE BUSBY Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak ou...
FRANCINE BUSBY If we do win, it will send a message for change across the country.
FRANCINE BUSBY This secret deal didn't contain many of the provisions commonly found in other port deals. That may ...
FRANCINE BUSBY Given the record of this administration, 'trust us' is not a safe enough answer for the American peo...
FRANCINE BUSBY Congress should review and decide on whether or not this deal should proceed.
FRANCINE BUSBY These are people who want to see change in the way Washington works.
FRANCINE BUSBY It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to...
FRANCINE BUSBY God will give you courage when you need it.
FRANCINE RIVERS Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency?
FRANCINE RIVERS But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.
FRANCINE RIVERS How can we be witnesses of the one true God if we hold the truth as our own possession? God meant hi...
FRANCINE RIVERS How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?
FRANCINE RIVERS He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness,
FRANCINE RIVERS Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to...
FRANCINE RIVERS But I know Jesus arose. I feel his presence now, here, with me. I see the evidence of his Word every...
FRANCINE RIVERS A beautiful face can mask great evil...
FRANCINE RIVERS I gave up what I can't keep, for something I can never lose.
FRANCINE RIVERS Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she l...
FRANCINE RIVERS Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the ri...
FRANCINE RIVERS Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God.
--- Hadassah
FRANCINE RIVERS Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory....
FRANCINE RIVERS Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?
FRANCINE RIVERS I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.
FRANCINE RIVERS Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or se...
FRANCINE RIVERS Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.
FRANCINE RIVERS Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
FRANCINE RIVERS When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
BLAISE PASCAL We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
BLAISE PASCAL The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange i...
BLAISE PASCAL Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
BLAISE PASCAL He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the ...
BLAISE PASCAL I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time t...
BLAISE PASCAL The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
BLAISE PASCAL On vanity: The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
BLAISE PASCAL The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is...
BLAISE PASCAL Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.
ADAM PASCAL I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretica...
ADAM PASCAL I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
ADAM PASCAL You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task se...
ADAM PASCAL Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
ADAM PASCAL Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as ju...
BLAISE PASCAL Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
BLAISE PASCAL The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us ...
BLAISE PASCAL People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by t...
BLAISE PASCAL Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCAL Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
BLAISE PASCAL I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
BLAISE PASCAL Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we...
BLAISE PASCAL Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
BLAISE PASCAL If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He ex...
BLAISE PASCAL Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
BLAISE PASCAL It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.
BLAISE PASCAL All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
BLAISE PASCAL The property of power is to protect.
BLAISE PASCAL Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
BLAISE PASCAL Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, ...
BLAISE PASCAL Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then aba...
BLAISE PASCAL If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
BLAISE PASCAL Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty i...
BLAISE PASCAL Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole...
BLAISE PASCAL Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
BLAISE PASCAL Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
BLAISE PASCAL It all starts offensively with Billy. He has had a tremendous career at Holy Cross. This fall he rea...
ADAM PASCAL We are looking for guys who won't take any time off and want to compete. We expect our players to do...
ADAM PASCAL The key for us is to not back down. We have to realize that until the game is over we have a chance ...
ADAM PASCAL We are trying to turn this program around so there is a great deal of enthusiasm with all of the kid...
ADAM PASCAL Their leadership will be critical this year with having graduated such a big class last year. We bro...
ADAM PASCAL We played in a lot of close games last year including an 11-10 double overtime loss to Army which ma...
ADAM PASCAL I had more fun making the movie than I did making the show Off-Broadway [where Rent began]. I'm olde...
ADAM PASCAL I've become a little disillusioned with what's happening in the theatrejust in the material that's b...
ADAM PASCAL [While he's seen] lots of parts of the filmand it's just beautiful, ... I think Rent fans would go s...
ADAM PASCAL Paul came on strong late last season after going through some injuries early on. I can't think of ma...
ADAM PASCAL We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we n...
BLAISE PASCAL Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
BLAISE PASCAL I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter...
BLAISE PASCAL If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
BLAISE PASCAL