Defterd R Quotes & Sayings

Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience. — Karen Traviss

every emotion, every decision, every reaction can be boiled down to its essence- does it come from love or fear? Dark or light? — Jenny Klaire

What is it that makes all our quarrels end in death nowadays? Whereas our fathers knew degrees of vengeance we now begin at the end and straightway talk of nothing but killing. What causes that, if not cowardice? — Michel De Montaigne

You can't show somebody what it's like to experience loss, but you can soundtrack it and help them experience their own loss. I am so lucky to have this venue to be able to say and talk about all the stuff I've been through. — Zachary Cole Smith

Because I don't have everything I want. Not even close. — Alyson Noel

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah. — Edward Abbey

I found bossing other people about such a delightful novelty that I had to remind myself of Lord Acton's famous axiom about its tendency to corrupt. — Victoria Clayton

Proverbs 23:7 reminds us, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (NLV). We — Lysa TerKeurst

When the Albans had left their city the Romans levelled to the ground all the public and private edifices in every direction, and a single hour gave over to destruction and ruin the work of those four centuries during which Alba had stood. The temples of the gods, however, were spared, in accordance with the king's proclamation. — Livy

I never was lost. I was bewildered right bad once for as much as a week, but not lost. — Elizabeth Madox Roberts

The assumption that simple = stupid. But it's not true; indeed, I find from personal experience that the stupidest writers are the ones whose writing is positively baroque in form. — John Scalzi

My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I have no choice. — Valerie Simpson

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. — Shunryu Suzuki