Annotated Bibliography Quotes & Sayings

How is one to decide where the limitations start and end, unless they try to break past them? — Amber Schunk Clubb

Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with the powers of evil; but like a bull they rush at the red cloak instead of the person who is holding it; he exhausts himself and is beaten. He gets entangled in non-essentials and falls into the trap set by cleverer people. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules. — Orson Scott Card

A single hour snatched from death outweighs a whole existence of tortures. — Maurice Maeterlinck

We may be wondering why we can't keep certain relationships. We can't keep people who tuned higher/lower than our thought process. Get over it! — Assegid Habtewold

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving. — Dale Carnegie

See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance. — Shannon L. Alder

I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you have to come up with something for the second novel, but you really don't have anything to say. — Lee Smith

He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one. — Anthony Bourdain

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen. — Pindar

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. — Robert Anton Wilson

All things return (to their root and disappear), and do not know that it is it which presides over their doing so; - it may be named in the greatest things. — Lao-Tzu

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource. — Stephanie S. Tolan