Emma Ross Jessie Quotes & Sayings

I am a member of the team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. — Mia Hamm

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. — Nicholas Sparks

As his mother said, once you started worrying about the future, you started obsessing about the past. — Cassandra Clare

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey. — Thomas A Kempis

One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age. — Oscar Wilde

Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them. — Harriet Rubin

As odd as it seemed, I learned that people may disappoint you, yes, but the one thing they also did was surprise you. Some of the best people were also some of the worst, there was no way to judge anyone really, you had to let them prove something. — Holly Hood

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where
the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry
meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future. — Pearl Bailey

I want to make smart choices. — Samantha Barks

I'm holding a super-expandable energy-powered towel. I've made friends with space hamsters. I think we've stretched believability rather far, don't you? — Michael S. Atkinson

You're very good at organizing your feelings, aren't you?" Christopher had asked dryly.
"I suppose I am. I wish I could organize yours. At present they seem to resemble an overturned drawer of neckcloths."
"Not neckcloths," he said. "Flatware, with sharp edges."
Audrey had smiled. "I pity those who find themselves in the way of your feelings. — Lisa Kleypas

My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are half animal, half angel into persons, into whole persons. — Ludwig Feuerbach

The despot is not a man. It is the Plan. The correct, realistic, exact plan, the one that will provide your solution once the problem has been posited clearly, in its entirety, in its indispensable harmony. This plan has been drawn up well away from the frenzy in the mayor's office or the town hall, from the cries of the electorate or the laments of society's victims. It has been drawn up by serene and lucid minds. It has taken account of nothing but human truths. It has ignored all current regulations, all existing usages, and channels. It has not considered whether or not it could be carried out with the constitution now in force. It is a biological creation destined for human beings and capable of realization by modern techniques. — James C. Scott

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life. — Anthony Capella