Audacious Inquiry Quotes & Sayings

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous. — Akira Suzuki

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What's really important. What we want
most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray. — Megan Hart

The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it's worse than zero, because it represents territory you're afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you'll abandon your book. — Timothy Hallinan

In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once. — William M. Daley

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth. — Joseph Smith Jr.

I studied her face as she got closer. Who wore that much makeup this early in the morning? She looked like she got smacked in the face by a drunk rainbow. — Beth Ehemann

I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way. — Valerie June

And a single green soldier was plucked from the shoe box of reservists and replacements and tossed her way, through the air. She picked him up from the sand. The mold had shaped his features precisely, a strong jaw and a sharp nose, the little combat helmet and a sash of ammunition across his chest. Unlike — Alice McDermott

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store. — Stephan Pastis

True disciples of Jesus Christ have always been concerned for the one. Jesus Christ is our greatest example. He was surrounded by multitudes and spoke to thousands, yet He always had concern for the one. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in. — Paulo Coelho

As I came up from the galley, the sun was going down into the ocean in a blaze that paved the western sea with gold like the streets of Heaven. I stopped for a moment, just a moment, transfixed by the sight. It had happened many times before, but it always took me by surprise. Always in the midst of great stress, wading waist-deep in trouble and sorrow, as doctors do, I would glance out a window, open a door, look into a face, and there it would be, unexpected and unmistakable. A moment of peace. The — Diana Gabaldon

I like to let my racket do the talking. — Rod Laver