Candus Houchin Quotes & Sayings

I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases. — Manfred Von Richthofen

I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn't delusional. I knew I had talent. — Diane Warren

That power he had to deplete things before getting them, that stark premonition he had of "afterward" ...Before taking the first step toward action, he had already tasted the saturation and sorrow that follow victories... — Clarice Lispector

Breathe a word of prayer, not anger. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Both writing and praying are acts of deep vulnerability. — Pat Schneider

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness. — Henry Ford

Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations. — Peter F. Hamilton

I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get to sleep before two, the hour at which the drought, the refugee camps, the dying planet and all the faults and meannesses of my character would arrive to haunt me. — Helen Garner