Chevreuse Valley Quotes & Sayings

I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing ... If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you. — Flannery O'Connor

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday. — Gary Reilly

If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever. — George Whitefield

I make my relationships at work. — Carol Kane

All the information I have about myself is from forged documents. — Vladimir Nabokov

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive. — Lee Kuan Yew

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to
self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt,
that's real power. — Clint Eastwood

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself. — Andres Serrano

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear! — Will Ferrell

tightly and a vein throbbed at his temple. The two guards led Rogers down a long hallway. On each side were barred cell doors. The men behind them had been talking, but when Rogers came into view they abruptly stopped. The prisoners — David Baldacci

The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women's unions. — Warren Farrell

Nothing that was said in here would decide MacGregor's fate. That decision was being made elsewhere. This was not the highest Court in the land. The highest Court in the land was somewhere else in some unknown building; in a room with locked doors, a room which MacGregor would never enter and never see. This was a great camouflage for the authority that stemmed from another unknown source. — James Aldridge

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt.
Prayer makes it weaker. — Toba Beta

My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it. — James Franco

Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, — Veronica Roth