Inspirational Luminaries Quotes & Sayings

For if there be no Christ there be no God; and if there be no God we are not, for there could have been no creation. But there is a God, and he is Christ, and he cometh in the fulness of his own time. — Joseph Smith Jr.

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering. — Radhanath Swami

I would give my life, that's nothing, my soul ... my dear, my dear, try to understand that you are - so important. — Graham Greene

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living ... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot. — Barry Eisler

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first ... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end. — Elizabeth George

You look angry," he said.
"You put me on hold."
"For a very good reason."
"You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold. — Derek Landy

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States. — Edward Said

Most people miss an opportunity because they fear to knock on the door. — Debasish Mridha

Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense. — C. Robert Kehler

Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword. — Elmore Leonard

That was the thing about nature: make one lousy rule to describe it and it'll contradict you even if it has to transmogrify and metamorphosize and bust its ass to do it. and so what? if anybody grew wise enough to grasp the real immutable laws of nature, nature'd only rear back and strike 'em dead before they got anybody to understand them — David James Duncan