Dr Zira Quotes & Sayings

Every novel is a debtor to Homer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone. — Tony Evans

Happiness never decreased by being shared. — Gautama Buddha

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times. — Michael Burgess

God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience
an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not. — John Ruskin

Just as warm sunlight can, by passing through a lens, turn to fire, so too can love. It's wrong to see it as something that swoops in from the outside. It's because it arises from the feelings we carry inside us that it strikes with such violence, at the moment we least expect. — Sabahattin Ali

I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open. — Andy Roddick

The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

And then, somehow she knew that God was not the light, and God was not the darkness, and not anybody at all. Maybe, God was not... — Miriam Katin

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high — Paul Allen

But the real fun of writing, for me at least, is the experience of making a set of givens yield. There's an incredibly inflexible set of instruments - our vocabulary, our grammar, the abstract symbols on paper, the limitations of your own powers of expression. You write something down and it's awkward, trivial, artificial, approximate. But with effort you can get it to become a little flexible, a little transparent. You can get it to open up, and expose something lurking there beyond the clumsy thing you first put down. When you add a comma or add or subtract a word, and the thing reacts and changes, it's so exciting that you forget how absolutely terrible writing feels a lot of the time. — Deborah Eisenberg

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction. — Beau Willimon

I think I'd hoped to be released by it, and solaced, just by hearing her tell me. But it wasn't like that. I felt empty: the kind of emptiness that's sad but not distressed, pitying but not broken-hearted, and damaged, somehow, but clearer and cleaner for it. And then I knew what it was, that emptiness: there's a name for it, a word we use often, without realizing the universe of peace that's enfolded in it. The word is free. — Gregory David Roberts

Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colors. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky