Diogenes Van Sinope Quotes & Sayings

So, how do you kill a dragon? (Channon) With a very sharp sword. (Sebastian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

You are so inconvenient to my existence. That I can't even stand to look at you. I look at myself in the mirror. And you stare back. You are me and I am you. This inconvenient existence. One living, the other dying. You consume my existence. And I let you. 'Cause I love you. — Abria Mattina

To be beautiful is a good thing, for which we should thank Nature - to be attractive, morally, rather than physically, is, however, a thing for which we should thank Nature even more, if she be good enough to have endowed us with that lasting quality. — Unknown

Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you. — Steven Redhead

"If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane of art when love for the task-loyalty-is fused with the effort. Loyalty is the great lubricant of life. It saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. The man who is loyal to his work is not wrung nor perplexed by doubts, he sticks to the ship, and if the ship founders he goes down like a hero with colors flying at the masthead and the band playing." — Thomas Watson

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true. — Dana Spiotta

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never ask yourself, what should I write about? Or what would other people want to read? This takes us away from what we are individually capable of. It ignores passion and injects uncertainty. Ask yourself, instead, what am I dying to write about? What would I hate to leave this world without being able to say? That's what you should write about. — Hope Koppelman

When she remembered the haughty style of his address, she dreamt of watching his eyes glaze over as she choked the life from his body; — Seth Grahame-Smith

The problem was to get judges who were not afraid to prosecute Saddam despite intimidation and threats. — Hoshyar Zebari

The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind. — Kurt Chambers

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different. — Cecelia Ahern

Lauren truly believed she's to blame for his detachment and refusal to attach to her. But — Nako

I love getting back to Wivenhoe. I get out of my wig, bustle and costume in three minutes flat at the end of the play before jumping into a taxi outside the theater and catching the train home. — Joan Hickson

From the day I was born I have always loved action more than words. But now only words are left. — Sattareh Farman Farmaian