Quotes & Sayings About Faith Tok

Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ? — Jean Sasson

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction. — Francine Prose

Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing ...
For me, a line has to sing before it does anything else. The great thrill is when a sentence that starts out being completely plain suddenly begins to sing, rising far above itself and above any expectation I might have had for it. That's what keeps me going on those dark December days when I think about how I could be living instead of writing. — John Banville

On Dreams
Only one thing supersedes the importance of thinking about a better tomorrow. It's taking action today. — Vincent Lowry

Plurality should not be assumed without necessity. — William Of Ockham

It could have been worse. He could have said he wasn't a 'dessert person' and then I would have been forced to jump out of a moving car. — Saba Kapur

A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment. — Brenda Shoshanna

Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional. — Eoin Colfer

As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I can tell you that it's okay to feel whatever it is you're feeling right now. It's okay to miss him and it's okay to hurt and it's okay to feel lost-just as long as you come to me, or your friends, or your family, when all those feelings try to overwhelm you. Because in amongst all those feelings, some of you are going to be angry, and some of you will need someone to blame. It's okay to be angry. I can't tell you if it's right or wrong to feel blame, but what I can say is don't be angry for too long and don't hold on to the blame forever. That kind of anger can take away a piece of you, a piece of you that you might not get back. — Samantha Young

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen. — Stanley Elkin

They sport haircuts that were apparently administered by a blind heroin addict in the men's room of a Bulgarian disco in 1978. — Dave Barry

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip? — Leonard Ravenhill

When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby. — Will Arnett