Army Officer's Wife Quotes & Sayings

If you intend to insist on justice in order to live a successful and happy life, you will not do so in this lifetime, on this planet. — Maxwell Maltz

After all, fiction is only fact minus time. — Mark Forsyth

This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day. — Bill Graham

But Perdition was a much asylum as prison, and when you were standing in somebody else's delusions, it was both polite and politic to play along. — Ann Aguirre

The desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires. — Albert Einstein

Some things in life you just can't ride around — Randolph Scott

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record. — Mahatma Gandhi

If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there. I've begun to think we sit far more than we're supposed to." He smiled. "Why else would we have feet? — Rachel Joyce

I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more important to know some good Miles Davis stories than to know how to play like Miles. I think you'll play better if you know some of the funny things he did than if you know the licks that he played. — Sonny Sharrock

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn't capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won't put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn't a great artist. — Diego Rivera