Affirmance Quotes & Sayings

I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route. — Will.i.am

You can't tell someone to pursue their dream only if it's a good match for your own. You can't dictate what dream he should pursue. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

When you train yourself to think positive, you tend to worry less and not let the worst get the best of you. — Jason Scotts

Ah! candid and unadulterated mind! you have learned early to reflect; but take care lest this habit, hitherto so well applied, should totally unfit you for society. It will strew thorns in your path, while other young women of your age seek only flowers. By imagining yourself in the place of others, as you now continually do, you will learn to feel for all the unhappy, or even for those who appear so; whereas it might save a great deal of (for the most part useless) pain, if you could contrive to feel only for yourself. — Charlotte Turner Smith

They fix attention, heedless of your pain,
With oaths like rivets forced into the brain;
And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout,
They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt. — William Cowper

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life. — Diane Keaton

We must look to an open, tolerant, inclusive England, which embraces the values of a Britain that still leads the world in terms of an open democracy, as well as an understanding of the needs for responsibilities and obligations to run alongside the affirmation of individual rights. — David Blunkett

...'All this suffering,' I said, 'and nothing but greed and violence to build on when the war is over.'
'Have another soda-mint,' said Charles.
I had one. Then I said, 'Why are we here? That's what I don't understand. Why be here at all when it all has to be so beastly?'
'I suppose we just came, like mould on cheese.'
'Then why do we want to be happy? Mould on cheese doesn't want to be happy.' ... — Joyce Dennys

Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states ... — Tennessee Williams

I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. — Theodore Sturgeon

I think our nation is at a pivotal point. Too many people fear that we are losing the sense of limitless possibility that has always defined this nation. — Carly Fiorina

Girl surrounded by flowers
Technicolor kiss
For all the night's lengthy hours
I'll miss ... — Tessa Gratton

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer ... well, it's like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can't just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book. — Dean Koontz

At least one thing at Hex Hall hasn't changed," Jenna said.
"Yeah, apparently the Vandy's powers of bitchery are a constant. I find that comforting. — Rachel Hawkins

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better. — Pope Francis