Ben Hoffman Quotes & Sayings

I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published ... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice. — Markus Zusak

Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog. — Ismail Kadare

It is faith (trust) that affirms that the light, the ultimate truth, is perfect love. (That's because there is only one God, and He is both.) Therefore faith is the key to this absolute love of truth. — Peter Kreeft

You dig in and you find something. — Georg Baselitz

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry. — Augustin Matata Ponyo

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves. — Benjamin Tucker

As they were falling asleep, Gillian could have sworn she heard Ben say Fate
as if they were meant to be together from the start and every single thing they'd ever done in their lives had been leading to this moment. If you thought that way, you could fall asleep without regret. You could put your whole life in place, with all the sadness and the sorrow, and still feel that at last you had everything you ever wanted. In spite of the lousy odds and all the wrong turns, you might actually discover that you were the one who'd won. — Alice Hoffman

I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures — Thomas A. Edison

Brandy and water spoils two good things. — Charles Lamb

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations. — Nicholas Kristof

aircraft. The heavily armed and even-heavier armored Sturmovik — Sean M. McAteer

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here. — Jodi Picoult

With his words, he could approach the soul where it resided, a glory to God, for words were what the Almighty first created, after the silence of the world, and they were Eleazar ben Ya'ir's gift as well. — Alice Hoffman

Technology and the Internet are not just changing politics here in the U.S. It's also happening abroad. In the Philippines, where I grew up, grassroots organizers used text messaging to help overthrow a president. — Jose Antonio Vargas

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death. — Silas Weir Mitchell

If it reenters its base, I have a rule to cut at least 50 percent of the position. — David Ryan

Great inspiration makes great scientists. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam