28315 Quotes & Sayings

Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom, so common with novel-writers, of degrading, by their contemptuous censure, the very performances to the number of which they are themselves adding; joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas! if the heroine of one novel be not patronised by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? I cannot approve of it. Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. Let us not desert one another- we are an injured body. — Jane Austen

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway. — Larry McMurtry

The sooner you stop fighting, the easier your life will be. That is what your purpose is."
Lana stood so abruptly she nearly fell backward. "No. — Kiersten White

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. — Mahatma Gandhi

Focus on money and we will make money. Focus on impact and we will make an impact. — Simon Sinek

President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010. — Ben Shapiro

We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain. — Vaclav Havel

Love is easy, falling in love is even easier, but letting that love go, is the most difficult thing you'll ever have to do. Some of us never let it go and
sometimes it takes a while to realize what you want. But your heart will always have the right answer in the end. You just have to figure out what it's
telling you. — Marie Coulson

Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase. — Mason Cooley

How, I wondered, was one meant to live without killing, when killing sought one out at every turn? The world made its monsters indeed. — Charlotte McConaghy