Guterson Author Quotes & Sayings

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. — David Guterson

In the middle of tranquillity, think about the people inside the storms! In your happy times, remember the unhappy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Finding within yourself a sense of value that does not depend on your achievements will make you more resistant to crippling self-doubts. Unconditional — Gillian Butler

Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth. — Elizabeth I

The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth. — Tony Juniper

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that. — David Guterson

My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do. — Al Sharpton

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity. — David Price

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too. — Benicio Del Toro

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world. — Doris Lessing