Blushfully Quotes & Sayings

As may be seen, there is only one sensible piece of advice to give to those who find themselves having to talk to an author about one of his books without having read it: praise it without going into detail. An author does not expect a summary or a rational analysis of his book and would even prefer you not to attempt such a thing. He expects only that, while maintaining the greatest possible degree of ambiguity, you will tell him you like what he wrote. — Pierre Bayard

There were people dying everywhere getting massacred in every town and village, there were people being picked up and thrown into dark jails in unknown parts, there were dungeons in the city where hundreds of young men were kept in heavy chains and from where many never emerged alive, there were thousands who had disappeared leaving behind women with photographs and perennial waiting ,there were multitudes of dead bodies on the roads, in hospital beds, in fresh martyrs' graveyards and scattered casually on the snow of mindless borders. — Mirza Waheed

If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey. — Jeffrey R. Holland

At any given moment,
someone,
somewhere,
is blowing a kiss.
And somewhere, someone is catching it. — Amy Gibson

But if you're smart you don't hold up your hand in class and ask to be called on. — Christopher Morley

Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me. — Emily Saliers

Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man? — Dennis Vickers

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain. — George MacDonald

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human. — Sam Abell