We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
Stephen King
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb. CHRIS SMITH I'm with him from the womb to the tomb. I love him. BUDDY MCGIRT I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King. LESLIE FIEDLER The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him towar... WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw. No matter how har... RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever , Then there will be things that you won't ever lis... RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day, Just for a moment, just see you, I wish I could h... RATISH EDWARDS Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ... LILLIAN S. VILORIA Stephen King was rejected 30 times before he finally gave up on getting his first book Carrie publis... LORI R TAYLOR We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not th... JULIE OTSUKA We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not th... JULIE OTSUKA When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little b... BRUCE CONNER We don't lose a whole lot from one set of five to the other except for maybe a little experience. We... JOSHUA STALEY Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning ISABEL RAMOS Respect comes not from respecting to one another, but from knowing our differences. TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand. STEPHEN KING One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance o... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY If you do not even know one as yourself, then you do not even know them as other. AARON SANTOS As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start ... STEPHEN KING What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by enc... KILROY J. OLDSTER Iam kind of hoping the rest of my night will be full os regretful behavior and irreversible decision... CHRISTINE ZOLENDZ The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It... JOHN JAKES Jane Heard. ONE Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. J. FRANK DOBLE The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. NORMAN DOUGLAS We may have different points of arguments from perspectives of belief, faith and religion.But we mus... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing... A.W. TOZER There's a bunch of Stephen King books I love. 'Salem's Lot' was always one of my fav... PAUL CLEAVE From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a ... J.R. WARD We go from one war to another; we go from one terrorist group to another and we go from one calamity... ANTHONY T. HINCKS The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. J. FRANK DOBIE The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. JAMES FRANK DOBIE The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his ... N.T. WRIGHT God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no furt... MAHATMA GANDHI Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. REINHOLD NIEBUHR If they get close to one another, material can transfer and the angular momentum from one system can... JAN HOLLIS I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in ... TED NAIFEH I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and... CLIVE CUSSLER the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is i... TONI MORRISON Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols JOHN CALVIN Anything man can make, man can destroy. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffe... M. SCOTT PECK We go from one war to another; we go from one terrorist group to another and we go from one calamity... ANTHONY T. HINCKS to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence... DAVID LODGE I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we... ELLEN DEGENERES It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible throug... DAVID MITCHELL I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel... DAVID LEVITHAN As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts... LEVI WOODBURY Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward ... CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES ...The Little From Everything... DEYTH BANGER Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace arc... WALTER GROPIUS I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, ... GEORGES BERNANOS We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history. ANON. There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any se... STEPHEN KING We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON
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