Quotes & Sayings About Before The Year Ends

I lack the imagination. For that reason I have to pack, stuff into my pockets odds and ends, passport, money, and go see what it's really like. Whenever the time of year or the weather changes, I have to pack up whatever I can't do without and visit all those places I've been before, to make sure they still exist — Andrzej Stasiuk

Whether you're working with kindergartners or adults, 8th-graders or college students, you undertake what you do, as educator and activist William Ayers puts it, "with hope and purpose but without guarantees. — Gregory Michie

Truth without the way to truth is dead. — Paul Tillich

The great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. — Brenda Ueland

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times. — Carlos Ponce

A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long. — Anurag Shourie

At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere. — Katharine Graham

You know, it's the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist, you're not the puppet of the piano, you're not the puppet of the muse, but you're not its master, either. It's a relationship, it's a conversation, and all it wants is to be treated with respect and dignity - and it will return ten thousand times over. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When you drive a car, either you manage it and feel it with the grip of the car, or, like me, you fix it on visual speed. If you do it through the grip, you lose it very quickly - because when the track changes, you can have scares. I do it visually, so if I am going too fast I fight to get the car back, but I do not do it by feeling the grip. — Jean Alesi

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. — Alexandre Dumas

A big tent is great and all, but there has to be a line in the sand, and I'm pretty sure the desire to legislate other women's bodies is it. — Andi Zeisler

Alexandre Dumas wrote those lines when he had just turned forty-five and had decided it was time to reflect on his life. He never got past chronicling his thirty-first year - which was well before he had published a word as a novelist - yet he spent more than the first two hundred pages on a story that is as fantastic as any of his novels: the life of his father, General Alexandre - Alex - Dumas, a black man from the colonies who narrowly survived the French Revolution and rose to command fifty thousand men. The chapters about General Dumas are drawn from reminiscences of his mother and his father's friends, and from official documents and letters he obtained from his mother and the French Ministry of War. It is a raw and poignant attempt at biography, full of gaps, omissions, and re-creations of scenes and dialogue. But it is sincere. The story of his father ends with this scene of his death, the point at which the novelist begins his own life story. — Tom Reiss

noon. Having all the time in the world makes getting things done impossible. I've earned a rest; I've worked without breaks since — Erika Swyler

I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession. — Edmund White

Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, — George Orwell