Heroicized Quotes & Sayings

I've learned a simple principle: all I have to do is be the best 'me' that I can be. One day when I read the Scripture about David, that he fulfilled his purpose for his generation. I knew God spoke to me. — Joel Osteen

You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it's all a waste and a sin to take it if you can't use it. — Robert Ruark

In order to make the April mortgage, Kurt had been forced to sell all his CDs, disconnect his Internet, and never set foot in a Jamba Juice. — Maria Semple

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. — Elias Canetti

You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones. — Peter Watts

Contentment is the joy of life — Lailah Gifty Akita

I might not be able to tell you the things you need to hear with the traditional words you need to hear them in, but I swear to God, Rylee, I will try. And if I can't, then I'll show you. I'll show you with everything I have - anything it takes - where your place is in my life," he murmurs to me, shattering every last form of protection I have guarding my heart. — K. Bromberg

I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don't think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied - whether it's cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back. — Sammi Hanratty

While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes requires only an operator, a producer, a scriptor, or a pasticheur. — Abigail Solomon-Godeau

He was home, but he wasn't. He had gotten where he had to go, but he hadn't. He had found out who he was, but he didn't know why it had failed to satify his questions. — C.J. Cherryh

Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. — Edward Hall