Deprince Hale Quotes & Sayings

The forces of nature aren't arbitrarily selected in some way by
chance or design, they are simply the possible directions of time. — Gevin Giorbran

I knew there was a minefield ahead of me and no way to avoid the bombs, and even if you didn't actually step on the bombs, you were already transformed by constantly looking out for them. — Toure

Have you given any thought to your wedding vows?" Kai snorted.
"Delete anything that has to do with love, respect, or joy, and I'll sign on the dotted line. — Marissa Meyer

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard
by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off — Archibald MacLeish

Where do whores go? — George R R Martin

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry. — Ernst Haas

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship. — Sugata Mitra

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true. — William P. Young

Most people were motivated not by what they want but what they want to avoid. — Katie Kacvinsky

To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself. — Anne Rice

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration. — Calvin Coolidge

Politics are popularly supposed to govern the direction, and statesmen to be the guardian angels, of Civilization. It seems to me that they have little or no power over its growth. They are of it, and move with it. Their concern is rather with the body than with the mind or soul of a nation. One needs not to be an engineer to know that to pull a man up a wall one must be higher than he; that to raise general taste one must have better taste than that of those whose taste he is raising. — John Galsworthy

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly — Francis Bacon

Still speaking over me,' she says, meeting my eyes and scoffing. 'You are still that worthless little girl. — Rebecca Berto

Technically, the killing itself is due either to the sun or to pure idleness. — Kamel Daoud