Communautes Catholiques Quotes & Sayings

If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless. — Mary Gordon

Fuck it, I thought. As Don Rumsfeld once said, You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had. — Avi Steinberg

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on. — Alan Bennett

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same. — Jorge Luis Borges

When you are older, you'll understand for yourself the influence of age on convictions. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The lukewarm Christian can accomplish nothing with a whole life in which to do it. If you have lived for sin and self ... your witness will have [a] telling effect on all who have known you. — Billy Graham

You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar. — Flora Thompson

I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot. — Yvette Nicole Brown

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know. — Irving Berlin

You know the awkward class photo when you're sitting there for your school picture and you're 14 or something and you've got braces, and you don't know how to smile, and you've got a hard-on. — Rob Huebel