Admonishes Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Our host drifted away, and Vidia and I continued chatting about this and that. Swift judgments came down. The simplicity in Hemingway was "bogus" and nothing, Vidia said, like his own. Things Fall Apart was a fine book, but Achebe's refusal to write about his decades in America was disappointing. Heart of Darkness was good, but structurally a failure. I asked him about the biography by Patrick French, The World Is What It Is, which he had authorized. He stiffened. That book, which was extraordinarily well written, was also shocking in the extent to which it revealed a nasty, petty, and insecure man. "One gives away so much in trust," Vidia said. "One expects a certain discretion. It's painful, it's painful. But that's quite all right. Others will be written. The record will be corrected." He sounded like a boy being brave after gashing his thumb. The — Teju Cole

It is solely the form of Christ that matters, not any form besides Christ's own. The church is the human being who has become human, has been judged, and has been awakened to new life in Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge. — Horace Mann

We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers. — Bob Filner

Life moves on, it should always move no matter what. — Bianca Salindong

I remember a time when bookshops smelled of books and not coffee. — David Llewellyn

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else. — L.M. Montgomery

In a cottage deep in the forest lived the wicked old witch ... it was a cottage out of the nastier kind of fairy tale — Terry Pratchett

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent. — Jane Fonda

We do terrible things to the ones we love. We cheat and lie and betray them, for thirty pieces of silver or our own selfish hearts. The only way love endures is because of one simple gift. Forgiveness. — Vanessa Woods

All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream. — Taylor Dayne

Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And for all the progress, there is still societal pressure for women to keep an eye on marriage from a young age. When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a "good man" before they are all taken. I followed their advice and throughout college, I vetted every date as a potential husband (which, trust me, is a sure way to ruin a date at age nineteen). — Sheryl Sandberg