Defoes Tale Quotes & Sayings

7. Do you ask me what this real good is, and whence it derives? I will tell you: it comes from a good conscience, from honourable purposes, from right actions, from contempt of the gifts of chance, from an even and calm way of living which treads but one path. For — Seneca.

I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute. — Ishmael Reed

Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it. — Mason Cooley

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too. — Eric Ries

Every time you reach the edge, the edge move ahead of you like a shadow until the whole world is a ghetto, and you wait. — Marlon James

I think it's essential to construct our lives
as if it's a story we want to tell. — Darrell Calkins

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give
Me up to the Devil this very minute. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar. — Stephen King