Quotes of: Versions Keyword

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

Sisterhood Everlasting

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

Stranger than Fiction

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.

Shiver

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.

Sri Chinmoy's Heart Garden: A Book of Aphorisms for Joy and Inspiration

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Enhanced Version

Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.

The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today

I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly. The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can provide character references.

Sunshine

Travel in the direction of what you resist. On the way, you will meet a version of yourself who has been seeking you.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli - Original Version

We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own version and used it mainly to move their people. They called it Die Spinne.

Treasure of Saint-Lazare

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

We realized that the version of the world [our parents] rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a damn about lawns.

The Virgin Suicides

Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.

The Virgin Suicides

The Christian versions of the household codes were clearly progressive for their time, but does that mean they have the last word, that Christians in changing places and times cannot progress further?

A Year of Biblical Womanhood

I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

Brooklyn Decker

When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.

Jane McGonigal

I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won't be the b...

Kimora Lee Simmons

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would...

Stephen Hawking

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I thin...

Tom Hooper

Knowing that you are perfect as you are does not mean you will no longer grow. It means that everything you've experienced up to this moment has made you who you are, and that is perfection. Tomorrow, you will be an even more perfect version of yours...

Julie-Anne