Demaratus And Xerxes Quotes & Sayings

As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality. — Pema Chodron

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

The student is to read history actively not passively. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall. — Ulysses S. Grant

I have decided that if analysis is a hothouse, a hastening of wisdom and growth, nevertheless the life experience must be actually lived out and through, completely, in spite of it; everything that is lived out in the imagination is poison. — Anais Nin

The term 'role model' is so odious, but the truth is it's a very strong writer indeed who gets by without a model kept somewhere in mind. I think of Keats. Keats slogging away, devouring books, plagiarizing, impersonating, adapting, struggling, growing, writing many poems that made him blush and then a few that made him proud, learning everything he could from whomever he could find, dead or alive, who might have something useful to teach him. — Zadie Smith

On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches. (James Frey, pg.1) — James Frey

One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough. — Pema Chodron

Be wary of feeling as through there is not enough room at the table. Oftentimes a female Chinese-American might feel as through she is in competition with another Chinese-American woman writer of the same generation. A writer friend of mine calls it the "There Can Only Be One ... " syndrome. This isn't "Survivor." The more good writers, of all walks of life and all ethnicities and persuasions, the better. — ZZ Packer

People are so rarely villains in their own minds. — Rachel Hawkins

Hell is yourself too. — Robert Crumb

Maybe this kind of devotion is sinful," I continued. "Perhaps it was even the origin of sin. But you and I are already damned. — Katherine Pine

You ran into my life, this beautiful, amazing girl who changed everything. I finally saw what my world could be. What being normal and happy could look like. You've given me everything I never thought I could have! It scares to me think of life without you. Of not seeing your smile or hearing your voice. — A Meredith Walters

In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The little girl smiled. The spaces in between her teeth were dark with blood. Aside from that, she was kind of cute. — S.M. Reine