Directionally Accurate Quotes & Sayings

aloneness is a bad fiddle I play against my own / burning — Colleen J. McElroy

What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and other factors finally spilling into mainstream culture. I would like to see America evolve on how the laws are enforced on the streets. — Henry Rollins

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible. — Mahatma Gandhi

I don't know whether Mrs. Borden is out or in; I wish you would see if she is in her room. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself. — Steve Maraboli

Smartass Disciple: If you are really a master, then make me see miracles!
Master of Stupidity: Go to sleep and dream, then wake up thirty years later! — Toba Beta

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. — Cornelia Funke

Don't fight the pain, that's the key, my grandfather says. It's telling you something. Welcome it, let it speak to you. The pain says: Hello, I am not other than you; I am of the hollow, but I am you also. — Ransom Riggs

Keep your lies short and simple. — Mason Cooley

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent. — Steven Pinker

Given special powers, anyone can do anything. It takes away all the merit of achievement. It's like King Arthur's magic sword. As long as he wielded it, no one could defeat him. Well, that means that the virtue was in the sword, not in him. Even I could be a great knight with a sword like that. I'd be much more impressed by Arthur if he'd fought his battles with an ordinary sword, and still won them. — Brian Wainwright

Lola's only nugget of wisdom to her little daughters was Never cry, never ever. — Charles Frazier

Fine." He smirks at me. "Nice to meet you, Carrots," he says, looking directly at my hair. "Oh, I mean Clara."
My face flames.
"Same to you, Rusty," I shoot back, but he's already striding away. — Cynthia Hand

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself. — Deepak Chopra