Exordium Examples Quotes & Sayings

There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world we live in; writing is a way to clarify, to interpret, to reinvent. We may want our work to be recognized, but that is not the reason we write. We do not write because we must; we always have a choice. We write because language is the way we keep a hold on life. With words we experience our deepest understandings of what it means to be intimate. We communicate to connect, to know community. — Bell Hooks

You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you into a blaze. — Clare Morgan

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill. — Harold Nicolson

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland. — Walter Ulbricht

We chain ourselves much more than others chain us! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. — Helen Clark

Every 17 seconds a child dies on this planet from no clean drinking water. Good. Let's try to speed it up ... there are too many people. — Doug Stanhope

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894 ... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple ... President Woodruff then spoke ... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done. — Abraham H. Cannon

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss. — Jim Brown