Chashkin Challenge Quotes & Sayings

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad one. I try to remember that when reading someone else's work. — Thomas L. Dumm

I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts. — Adam D'Angelo

The best plan you'll ever have is to just go ahead and do it — Tommy Cotton

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals. — Michael Shermer

There can be no liberty without the law. — Cecil B. DeMille

She did not know what she had expected from her Dante, but she definitely hadn't received it. So with the wisdom that comes only from having experienced a broken heart, she resolved to let him go once and for all. — Sylvain Reynard

Could not have seemed to myself further from my hopes when I was nearest to her. The — Charles Dickens

Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here. — Ama Ata Aidoo

The past is anything but bygone — Elif Shafak

She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she'd thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130) — Ron Rash

If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check. — Grace Napolitano

If I can be a leader, I will. — Lady Gaga

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns. — Jean De La Bruyere