Appropriateness Examples Quotes & Sayings

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow. — Octavia E. Butler

None of this means that government does not have a very real function. Indeed, the tragedy is that because government is doing so many things it ought not to be doing, it performs the functions it ought to be performing badly. The basic functions of government are to defend the nation against foreign enemies, to prevent coercion of some individuals by others within the country, to provide a means of deciding on our rules, and to adjudicate disputes.3 — Milton Friedman

She ran her fingers over the stock and down the barrel, then drew in a sharp breath and paused.

This was the gun she'd killed Soren Tarbic with. — E.J. Fisch

Maybe fear is God's way of saying, Pay attention, this could be fun. — Craig Ferguson

This poem was meant
to be unwritten.
But I am writing it now
and have thereby changed
destiny. — Kamand Kojouri

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. — Audrey Niffenegger

I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end. — Ali Smith

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze. — Tori Spelling