Incipit Def Quotes & Sayings

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. — Thornton Wilder

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence — Steven Biko

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain. — Emile M. Cioran

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame. — Benjamin Franklin

Success, remember is the reward of toil. — Sophocles

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. — Charles Williams

For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip. — Haddon W. Robinson

The runes moved under my fingers as the fabric of space split and fluctuated within the confines of the portal. — Charity Bradford

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. — Charlotte Bronte

Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said. "This is one of them. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes