Acrevalue Quotes & Sayings

The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on. — Robert James Waller

Answers
I kept my answers small and kept them near;
Big questions bruised my mind but still I let
Small answers be a bullwark to my fear.
The huge abstractions I kept from the light;
Small things I handled and caressed and loved.
I let the stars assume the whole of night.
But the big answers clamoured to be moved Into my life. Their great audacity
Shouted to be acknowledged and believed.
Even when all small answers build up to
Protection of my spirit, still I hear
Big answers striving for their overthrow.
And all the great conclusions coming near — Edith Sitwell

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do ... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how. — Donald Barthelme

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down. — Mick Jagger

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. — Damien Hirst

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child. — Margaret Mahy

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others. — Michael Eric Dyson

When we slid the body into the grave, we both were shaken to the core. The loss we felt was not the loss of ham but the loss of pig. — E.B. White

I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things. — Jack Ma

A good friend will bail you out when you land in jail, but a very good friend will be sitting beside you in that jail cell. — Maya Banks

The moment one learns English, complications set in. — Felipe Alfau

Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature. — Thomas Aquinas

Satisfying you is my job, and I take my job very seriously — Brenda Rothert

He was a relentlessly cheerful presence, talked only of himself but so good-naturedly that she indulged him. He certainly laughed a good deal. Something about his laugh made her feel more alone than if she were standing on a high cliff at the end of the world, shouting her name into the void to hear it echo back at her. — Julie Anne Long