Dation En Quotes & Sayings

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course. — Christopher Koch

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. — Socrates

It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect. — Michelangelo

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being. — Gregory Maguire

If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can't imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America's alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart - and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings. — Rita Dove

So you're an environmentalist; why are you killing a distant river with every bite? "Energy-intensive US factory farms generated 1.4 billion tons of animal waste in 1996, which ... pollutes American waterways more than all other industrial sources combined. — Anonymous

Stop worrying about what's next and concentrate on delivering what is now! — Ted Rubin

Because just the day before, I had apparently told The Artist of our Generation to color inside the effing lines. — Amber L. Johnson

I observed with disillusioned clarity the despicable nonentity of the street; its porches; its window curtains; the drab clothes, the cupidity and complacency of shopping women; and old men taking the air in comforters; the caution of people crossing; the universal determination to go on living, when really, fools and gulls that you are, I said, any slate may fly from a roof, any car may swerve, for there is neither rhyme nor reason when a drunk man staggers about with a club in his hand - that is all. — Virginia Woolf

If he's not gay and he hung out with you the whole time, he wanted to be. It's boyfriend or want to be boyfriend or I guess gay. Those are the choices. — Daniel Handler

Writing is an ever learning experience of voice and thought. — J. Hale Turner

One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way. — Jeff VanderMeer

People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it? — Harlan Ellison

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior. — Carol P. Christ

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. — Doris Lessing