Forteana Quotes & Sayings

Acknowledgements
With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers. — Gail Carriger

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up. — Diana Nyad

I don't really know much about cars. — Ramon Rodriguez

Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. — Manny Pacquiao

A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My workshop leader was a Harvard professor and editor. At the end of the week we met one-on-one over breakfast, and she said, in essence, "Look, you're ready to turn pro." She gave me a list of literary agents to query once I had something to show them. I came home and wrote my first real novel, and the agent that sold it to Tor Books was on that list. — Brian Hodge

We shall pick up an existence by its frogs. — Charles Fort

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

For the rest of mankind to be with Christ means death, but for Christians it is a means of grace. Baptism is their assurance that they are "dead with Christ", "crucified with him", "buried with him", "planted together in the likeness of his death". All this creates in them the assurance that they will also live with him. "We with Christ"
for Christ is Emmanuel, "God with us." Only when we know Christ in this way is our being with him the source of grace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. — Gerald Jampolsky