Excerpted Passages Quotes & Sayings

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live. — Og Mandino

He who asks the questions cannot avoid the answers — Dale Verkuilen

Go to bed, Cammie," my aunt ordered, sounding exactly like my mother.
"No," I said, sounding exactly like my aunt. — Ally Carter

Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many read anthologies of excerpted works, that selected the brightest passages but left out deeper contexts - eighteenth-century Reader's Digest were quite popular. More cautioned against a habit she viewed as cultivating a taste only for "delicious morsels," one that spits out "every thing which is plain." Good books, in contrast, require good readers: "In all well-written books, there is much that is good which is not dazzling; and these shallow critics should be taught, that it is for the embellishment of the more tame and uninteresting parts of his work, that the judicious poet commonly reserves those flowers, whose beauty is defaced when they are plucked from the garland into which he had so skillfully woven them. — Karen Swallow Prior

The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people," he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at all. — Neil Gaiman

Just because all your friends are doing it, doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Don't be a blind follower, you don't know where you're going. — Lik Hock Yap

And let her loves, when she is dead
Write this above her bones,
No more she lives to give us bread
Who asked her only stones. — Dorothy Parker

O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion! — Gary Snyder

I love to work. You want to talk about natural highs? There's nothing like it. — Jolene Blalock