Illiberally Define Quotes & Sayings

You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only if you are convinced that to write is something for which there is no substitute in your life. You must therefore be ambitious for your work rather than for its promotion. The good news here is that if you assign secondary importance to publishing and primary to writing itself, you will write better, and will thus increase your odds of getting publishing. — Sydney Lea

Little boys jump, but they do not know where. Into the mouth of the demon lair. Hold still and you will see, in his hand is the key. Fire and brimstone. Brimstone and fire. Your ally is clever. a thief and a liar. All is not lost. You can turn it around. But, for a moment...all will be well.....peaceful and sound." Alice. — Kathy Cyr

Among the greatest tragedies is a person who believes that they aren't meant to win--by winning I mean find their purpose, passion and joy in life.
They believe that other people have better DNA or happiness genes or something, but that they themselves are missing a critical chromosome.
This is a lie and it is begging to be un-believed.
For the moment we know the truth about ourselves, we can take both responsibility for our own lives and inspired action to create exactly the life which is our birthright.
In other words, you were meant to win. You were created for joy. — Jacob Nordby

If you're looking for a unique solution, the last thing you should do is ask for a vote. — Youngme Moon

In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient. — Evan Williams

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche. — Charlize Theron

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once. — Umberto Eco

lot of agility, adaptability, a natural propensity toward curiosity, an insatiable appetite for that and this and this and that! — Margaret Lobenstine

I'm an accountant. I'm interested in things that don't add up.'

Max. — Jan Ruth

If I wasn't talking, I wouldn't know what to say. — Chico Resch

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware. — Elizabeth Moon

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. — Theodore Roosevelt

The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first. And I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it. — Amy Schumer

we are free of each other, and yet not, and never will be. — Elizabeth Strout

On your very worst, most rebellious, and most faithless day, you can run into the holy presence of your heavenly Father and he will not turn you away. — Paul David Tripp