Elizabeth Denham Quotes & Sayings

I think the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. When there are many writers all employing the same idiom, all looking out on more or less the same social scene, the individual writer will have to be more than ever careful that he isn't just doing badly what has already been done to completion. The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down. — Flannery O'Connor

I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Take this and stick it up your ass." I — Christina Lauren

If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way — Benny Bellamacina

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest. — William Penn

We choose this. This place. This life. What it will be, and how we live it. We are not slaves to gods, or fate, or destinies woven in veils of smoke. We choose the people we want to be, and we choose the shape of the world in which we live. Nothing worthwhile comes without sacrifice. There is nothing so easy as swimming with the current, nothing so difficult as being the first to stand up. To say no. To point at a thing wrong and name it so. There are none so brave as those who choose to stand, when all others are content to kneel. None so worthy of the title 'hero' as those who fight when there are none to see it. Who choose a life bereft of accolade or fanfare, a life of struggle for the idea that we are all the same. Every one of us. And every one of us has the right to be happy. To know peace. To know love. — Jay Kristoff

Anyway, much more important: I simply can't abide the replacement of Chrissy with Cindy. Three's Company may never be the same after this fiasco. Time will tell. — Andy Weir

A liar with a pen is a writer — Genesis Quihuis

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. — Mark Twain

Jerry thought about what a letter of recommendation from a council of wizards would look like in his resume file.
"Totally secret," he said firmly. — Rick Cook

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. — Ben Macintyre

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments. — Michael Landon

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos. — Deepak Chopra