My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun,...
LAURA DEKKER As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.
LAURA DEKKER Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
LAURA DEKKER It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
LAURA DEKKER In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nic...
LAURA DEKKER Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a f...
LAURA DEKKER All the media are horrible.
LAURA DEKKER I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, ...
LAURA DEKKER I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.
LAURA DEKKER A house is kind of scary.
LAURA DEKKER I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
LAURA DEKKER I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
LAURA DEKKER I grew up sailing in the North Sea.
LAURA DEKKER I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
LAURA DEKKER I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
LAURA DEKKER When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
LAURA DEKKER At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.
LAURA DEKKER I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make...
LAURA DEKKER As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
LAURA DEKKER My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left ho...
TED DEKKER I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my o...
TED DEKKER For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ...
TED DEKKER I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou...
TED DEKKER I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novel...
TED DEKKER I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I ...
TED DEKKER My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What th...
TED DEKKER All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, ...
TED DEKKER My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's und...
TED DEKKER It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the d...
TED DEKKER My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My r...
TED DEKKER Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ...
TED DEKKER If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this s...
TED DEKKER I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou...
TED DEKKER What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. Th...
TED DEKKER When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle bet...
TED DEKKER My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantas...
TED DEKKER For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ...
TED DEKKER Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality...
TED DEKKER Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high ...
TED DEKKER While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving bey...
TED DEKKER The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, a...
TED DEKKER My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been ...
TED DEKKER If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and i...
TED DEKKER It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da...
TED DEKKER Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What...
TED DEKKER Honest labor bears a lovely face.
THOMAS DEKKER no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own p...
TED DEKKER The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers ...
TED DEKKER Were there no women, men might live like gods.
THOMAS DEKKER The great fishpond (the sea).
THOMAS DEKKER [Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
THOMAS DEKKER Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
THOMAS DEKKER Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
THOMAS DEKKER Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand s...
THOMAS DEKKER The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
THOMAS DEKKER Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and ...
THOMAS DEKKER This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
THOMAS DEKKER This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
THOMAS DEKKER A mask of gold hides all deformities.
THOMAS DEKKER Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.
THOMAS DEKKER Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
THOMAS DEKKER God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads ...
TED DEKKER We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
THOMAS DEKKER This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
THOMAS DEKKER Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but...
DESMOND DEKKER Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Soci...
TED DEKKER Pain or perspective, that's the choice.'
. . .
You choose pain - you choose to fight it, ...
TED DEKKER …It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it,...
TED DEKKER Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to j...
TED DEKKER I cannot win the time trial of the world championships at my age,
THOMAS DEKKER Were there no women, men might live like gods
THOMAS DEKKER A mask of gold hides all deformities
THOMAS DEKKER There are plenty of things that are wrong. Marxists used to use the term "false consciousness," whic...
THOMAS DEKKER O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
THOMAS DEKKER Age is like love, it cannot be hid
THOMAS DEKKER This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical ...
THOMAS DEKKER To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with
reverence for the...
THOMAS DEKKER The goal is to have something, even if imperfect, rather than nothing. The other option is to treat ...
CORNELIA DEKKER Assignment to groups will be random, like a coin toss. They won't know and we won't know what group ...
CORNELIA DEKKER Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, / Smiles awake you when you rise. / Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cr...
THOMAS DEKKER [Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
THOMAS DEKKER Add to golden numbers golden numbers.
THOMAS DEKKER ...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the...
TED DEKKER One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called...
DESMOND DEKKER Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming franticall...
TED DEKKER Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in...
TED DEKKER God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.
TED DEKKER Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road w...
TED DEKKER Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It i...
TED DEKKER Immanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood ...
TED DEKKER There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be ...
TED DEKKER Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.
TED DEKKER The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.
TED DEKKER To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day withreverence for the oppo...
THOMAS DEKKER Every breathing soul longs to overcome.
TED DEKKER Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper t...
TED DEKKER We are doing it as fast as we can to provide results as quickly as possible so people can make decis...
CORNELIA DEKKER The point is, we were created to love beauty. We love beauty because Elyon loves beaut...
TED DEKKER I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so w...
TED DEKKER The problem of pain is not a nail in the coffin of Christianity; it is a crowbar that jerks the lid ...
TED DEKKER The incomparable great power we have as believers is tied up in hope. Lose the hope and lose the pow...
TED DEKKER The Gospels and the Epistles say next to nothing about emotional stability or midlife crises or a ba...
TED DEKKER Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestl...
TED DEKKER We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out ...
TED DEKKER Everyone is a lonely victim of life's complexity.
TED DEKKER He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could rea...
TED DEKKER Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul wanders ...
LAURA I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Doing the right thing has power.
LAURA LINNEY When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know...
LAURA ZISKIN I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
LAURA ZISKIN You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
LAURA ZISKIN For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
LAURA ZISKIN What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and...
LAURA ZISKIN I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I want...
LAURA ZISKIN I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
LAURA WILKINSON The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dive...
LAURA WILKINSON There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that...
LAURA WILKINSON I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
LAURA WILKINSON I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is...
LAURA WILKINSON I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I fe...
LAURA WILKINSON I love overcoming challenges and fear.
LAURA WILKINSON There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
LAURA WILKINSON Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it ...
LAURA WILKINSON There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people t...
LAURA WASSER Many states favor joint custody.
LAURA WASSER Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.
LAURA WASSER For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, becau...
LAURA WASSER Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going t...
LAURA WASSER A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, ...
LAURA WASSER I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions abou...
LAURA WASSER Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake a...
LAURA WASSER Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do reali...
LAURA WASSER I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the r...
LAURA WASSER Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorc...
LAURA WASSER I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the as...
LAURA WASSER One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husb...
LAURA WASSER To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know o...
LAURA WASSER Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and ...
LAURA WASSER The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that you...
LAURA WASSER If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really s...
LAURA WASSER Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way....
LAURA WASSER My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law ...
LAURA WASSER Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your ...
LAURA WASSER Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that k...
LAURA WASSER It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going ...
LAURA WADE I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport...
LAURA WADE I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quit...
LAURA WADE Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wou...
LAURA WADE It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?
LAURA WADE Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've j...
LAURA WADE 'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bas...
LAURA WADE I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting...
LAURA WADE Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?
LAURA WADE And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written...
LAURA WADE In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produ...
LAURA WADE I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.
LAURA WADE I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the op...
LAURA WADE I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever se...
LAURA WADE I don't like writing with real people in mind.
LAURA WADE I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like...
LAURA WADE It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
LAURA WADE Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's ...
LAURA WADE If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one ...
LAURA WADE Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it become...
LAURA WADE A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put...
LAURA WADE I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted ima...
LAURA WADE I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was ...
LAURA WADE I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
LAURA WADE Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
LAURA VANDERVOORT I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so muc...
LAURA VANDERVOORT I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I con...
LAURA VANDERVOORT I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19...
LAURA VANDERVOORT I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i...
LAURA VANDERVOORT I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
LAURA VANDERVOORT I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genr...
LAURA VANDERVOORT I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.
LAURA VANDERVOORT I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is complete...
LAURA VANDERVOORT A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in min...
LAURA VANDERVOORT Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.
LAURA TROTT I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to...
LAURA TROTT I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never reall...
LAURA TROTT Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
LAURA TROTT For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad so...
LAURA TROTT Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certa...
LAURA TROTT When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if...
LAURA TROTT The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of ...
LAURA TROTT My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose c...
LAURA TROTT I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
LAURA TROTT I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium ...
LAURA TROTT It's nice to actually look done-up, because people see a different side of me, the more girly si...
LAURA TROTT I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrasse...
LAURA TROTT It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think w...
LAURA TROTT I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and no...
LAURA TROTT I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it...
LAURA TROTT Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I ...
LAURA TROTT I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remembe...
LAURA TROTT I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to t...
LAURA TROTT I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everyt...
LAURA TROTT People find it hard to fit exercise into their working-day life. Nine to five jobs take up most of y...
LAURA TROTT