Beatam Vitam Quotes & Sayings

The vital thing is to look after those who come into your reach while you are still alive, good people, bad people, all people. — Roger Pulvers

Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up. — Tawni O'Dell

When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16. — Mark E. Smith

Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please.
Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries. — Juliet Marillier

Don't be afraid to study hard: knowledge never exhausts the mind. — Eraldo Banovac

Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press? — Upton Sinclair

Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love. — Frederick Lenz

As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind — Giada De Laurentiis

In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man. — Peter Kreeft

Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing was not fast enough, so we rolled merrily along on long metal tracks. Long metal tracks were not fast enough, so we drove. Driving was not fast enough, so we flew.
Flying isn't fast enough for us. We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. — Margaret Atwood

Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling. — Daryl Gregory