Fanestar Quotes & Sayings

If you look back at the great classics and the epics and myths, they were for everyone. Different people got different things from them, but everyone was invited to participate. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Wise is the man who monotonizes his existence, for then each minor incident seems a marvel. — Fernando Pessoa

Every nation has hidden history, countless stories preserved only by those who experienced them. Stories of war are often read and discussed worldwide by readers whose nations stood on opposite sides during battle. History divided us, but through reading we can be united in story, study, and remembrance. Books join us together as a global reading community, but more important, a global human community striving to learn from the past. — Ruta Sepetys

Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don't see any need to. — Noam Chomsky

Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty. — James Fenton

I will always want to earn what I get, however much it hurts; that I want it because it hurts, because pain gives life a pain, and without it life isn't even death, just . . . nothingness. — Gemma Files

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns. — Olga Broumas

I'm quite an eclectic musician. — Daryl Hall

I despise that he knows it and I don't. Makes him the better man for her in this situation. I want to be the better man for her in every situation. — Karen Marie Moning

We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him. — William Barclay

Bring a smile to her beautiful face. He needed to get her mind — J.E.B. Spredemann

[That] speaks to one of the most important roles of a leader; to boil down an organization's many priorities into a simple plan, so that employees can remember it, internalize it, and act on it. — Adam Bryant