Drooled Deco Quotes & Sayings

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively. — Guy Gavriel Kay

To sin by silnce when they should protest makes cowards of men (and women)... — Abe Lincoln

It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life. — Anna Kingsford

None of us plan
or intend
to get into trouble. The problem is, we don't plan not to. — Andy Stanley

Surrender unconditionally, even in the absence of evidence, to the truth of the cosmos. — Devdutt Pattanaik

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. Though — Eric Metaxas

The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read. — James Fenimore Cooper

She started to explain her project to him again but the words stopped in her throat. 'You don't have to understand it,' she said. 'It's mine. — Emily St. John Mandel

If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization ... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts ... We cannot wait for society to change, or for our institutions to be renewed. We, as individuals, must assume responsibility for our own personal transformation. — Georg Feuerstein

I just get the will to do it. I don't plan a photograph in advance ... I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the eyes. Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes. — Manuel Alvarez Bravo

One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form. — John Kessel

I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't exactly how it's done traditionally in the academy ... wherever that academy is ... but, you know, the academy is broken as it relates to many creative writing programs. — Tod Goldberg

* Compassion (Res/App):A term with several meanings including "feeling with" another person, sensing another's pain, and even the enacting of behaviors to help reduce the suffering of others (as in an act of compassion). There is also a universal (nondirected) compassion, or a sense of care and concern toward the world of living beings. Compassion can also be toward the self, "self-compassion," and includes qualities of kindness, acceptance, feeling a part of a larger human journey, and letting go of judgments about the self. — Daniel J. Siegel