Diacono Sonnante Quotes & Sayings

I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of the plot. I write without thinking much, trying to overcome all kinds of self-criticism, without stopping, without giving any consideration to the style or structure of the novel, only putting down on paper everything that can be used as raw material, very crude material for later development in the story. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right. — Mike Tyson

I would rather be kind than wise. — Debasish Mridha

Prayer is the superabundance of the heart. It is brim-full and running over with love and praise, as once it was with Mary, when the Word took root in her body. So too, our heart breaks out into a Magnificat. Now the Word has achieved its 'glorious course' (2 Thess. 3:1): it has gone out from God and been sown in the good soil of the heart. Having now been chewed over and assimilated, it is regenerated in the heart, to the praise of God. It has taken root in us and is now bearing its fruit: we in our turn utter the Word and send it back to God. We have become Word; we are prayer. — Andre Louf

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them. — George Eliot

The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity. — E. O. Wilson

If you want to work with people, then you have to know how to administrate, that is to organize them and lead them. — Sunday Adelaja

If you want something done, you sure as hell better do it yourself. — Rachel Van Dyken

The policeman recognized me, but I suppose that's only natural. Silk was going to kill him, but I said no."
"Why?" Beldin asked bluntly.
"We were in the middle of a busy street for one thing. Killing somebody's the sort of thing you ought to do in private, wouldn't you say? — David Eddings

If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean. — Chuck Klosterman

You don't love me.. Believe me! You don't love anyone. How could you? And no one loves you. How could they? Except me, it's only because I love you that I'm telling you all this. I Love you.. R. D. Laing. — R.D. Laing

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen. — Bernard-Henri Levy

I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else. — Margaret Atwood

I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married! — Jennifer Connelly

The note took long moments to fade and, when it had at last died away, there was an absolute hush over the world, the milling millions were still, there was an air of expectancy. And then the White Lords came. — Michael Moorcock