Dominie Quotes & Sayings

As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had. — Stacey D'Erasmo

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. — Jim Rohn

Life is so simple when you're young, though of course that's not what it feels like to the young. — Cornelia Funke

Unswerving devotion to your goals is success. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Someone, he thought rather crossly, ought to see him and tell him just what the sentence was, until he should have suffered enough to be purified, and at last to enter the Kingdom of God. Whether he was expecting a demon or an angel was uncertain. He had no idea of the staffing requirements of Purgatory; it wasn't a matter the dominie had addressed in his schooldays. — Diana Gabaldon

Develop your character; there is no need to be concerned about reputation. — Debasish Mridha

'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River? — Alex Gibney

I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands. — James Black

My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk. — Vladimir Nabokov

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired. — Ovid

A Dominie in Gray
Put gently up the evening Bars
And led the flock away — Emily Dickinson

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do. — William Zinsser