“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.” - Robert H. Schuller

Sentence of the Week

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”
Mark Twain quote

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind"
-- Dr. Seuss

Personification

When she warmed
and whispered awakened, soft vibrations
he brought his bow, aloft, to supple strings
to slide in flowing motion
above the bending bridge.

By: ten thousand cicadas on allpoetry.com

This poem, entitled Cello is one that I found while looking for a good use of personification. The writer uses sexually implicit wording talking about a man playing a cello- or more accurately the cello being played by a man- wanting to be played. This is a good example of personification. The cello performs human actions- (whispered, awakened) and you can apply the meaning of the words to a cello and a woman interchangeably.

Sentence of the week

"It is hard to fail, but it's worse to never have tried to succeed."-Theodore Roosevelt


This sentence holds true to me because for many years
I have feared failing college but I am here now getting over my fear.

Sentence of the Week

"Words mean more then what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
-Maya Angelou

Sentence of the Week

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
- John Lubbock

Sentence of the week

"Your thoughts guide you to your destiny"

This was something my Psychology teacher said in class one day that I liked, so I wrote it down. It's true. Positive thinking leads to positive outcomes. Negative thinking never leads you to a good place. If you think positive, good things will happen. It's a quote that really made me think.

Sentence of the week

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference.”
I like this sentence, because besides its simplicity, a powerful true is expressed.
There are controversies about the author.

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.... It's about learning how to dance in the rain.

sentence of the week

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Harold. R. McAlindon

Sentence of the week

"I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

Sentence of the Week

"I yell, but the yell is only in my head. My lips don't move. I can feel them-and my tongue, lying on the floor of my mouth like a stunned mole- but I can't move them." From Autopsy Room Four by Steven King.

I liked this description of how he felt, I think it causes the reader to visualize how hard it is for him to speak. I especially liked how he compares his body parts to a "stunned mole."

my second sentence of the week

"People don't want to communicate with an organization or computer. They want to talk to a real, live, responsive, responsible person who will listen and help them get satisfaction."
-- Theo Michelson

Is there a subject for sentences this week?

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My sencond sentence of the week.

“Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi”.

essentially means "what is permitted to one person or group, is not permitted to everyone."

sounds

As the shutters creeked back and forth, the rain continued to pounce down on the rooftop. The vivid noise felt like sharp icicles were going to come right through the glass and strike me. We thought this was going to be the worst hurricane we felt in a long time....

my sentence of the week

"Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends."
-- Walt Disney

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master..."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

A robin red-breast in a cage, puts all of Heaven in a rage. Think to yourself that every day is your last. The hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

-Thomas Harris

My second sentence of the week

I was reading The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow and I read this sentence, "It's over, I said to Jai. My goose is cooked." he was not talking about a real goose but he was talking about his cancer that he had. I thought that he did a good job with the word goose in that sentence.

My sentence of the week

I had read The Killer Angels for my history class and I came across sentences that I really like. It said, "... oh hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever? Oh has thou forgotten how soon we must part? It may be for years, it may be forever..." I love the style of the writing. How smooth it just falls of the tongue.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett

“You hope for the success, you dream about it, but you never expect it.”
-- Nicholas Sparks

“My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it has faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.”

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult