Excerpting Quotes & Sayings

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation. — Jonathan Swift

Vonnegut along with critically acclaimed novelists like Lawrence Durrell and Iris Murdoch, Scholes explained that Vonnegut uses the rhetorical potential of the short sentence and short paragraph better than anyone now writing, often getting a rich comic or dramatic effect by isolating a single sentence in a separate paragraph or excerpting a phrase from context for a bizarre chapter-heading. The apparent simplicity and ordinariness of his writing mask its efficient power ... — Kurt Vonnegut

Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings. — Elisabeth Marbury

Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs. — Chip Conley

I know that is what I was put on Earth to do - to be a mother. — Cheryl Cole

The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing at the past, in summoning it up, in re-examining it, except on behalf of art - that is, the meaningful-real.
(The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)) — William, Saroyan

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one. — Peter Greenaway

i asked God to give me a love via synchronicity so when it was my time to allow someone into my heart ~ he entered my world, as if by magic. — Nikki Rowe

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays. — Adam Carolla

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it — Albert Pike

We are all redeemed and free to follow the path that has no beginning and will have no end. — Paulo Coelho

I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am. — Harlan Coben

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run. — Theodore Roosevelt