Jane Cavendish Quotes & Sayings

I will take what I can from Edward. And then I will let them fade into history, all the characters in this drama. Emma Matthews and the men who loved her, who became obsessed with her. They're not important to us now. — J.P. Delaney

Do not disturb yourself by thinking of the whole of your life. Do not let your thoughts at once embrace all the various troubles that you may expect to befall you: but on every occasion ask yourself, What is there in this that is intolerable and past bearing? For you will be ashamed to confess. In the next place remember that neither the future nor the past pains you, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if you only circumscribe it and chide your mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this. — Marcus Aurelius

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction. — Alice Hoffman

Insight into the origin of a work concerns the physiologists and vivisectionists of the spirit; never the aesthetic man, the artist! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Inclusion and fairness in the workplace ... is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do. — Alexis Herman

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. — Jean-Paul Sartre

When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that hasn't been done before. You get all this magnetic energy, people focusing on one thing at the same time. I really get excited about it. It makes me want to compete even more. It makes it all worthwhile, all the hours of hard work. — Steve Prefontaine

Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition. — Claudia Rankine

She had never believed in fate. She still did not. It would be nonsense of freedom of will and choice, and it was through such freedom that we worked our way through life and learned what we needed to learn. But sometimes, it seemed to her, there was something, some sign, to nudge one along in a certain direction. What one chose to do with that nudge was up to that person. — Mary Balogh

Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence. — Carrie Fisher

It's not every day you do something that's never been done before. — Sean Elliott

Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism. — Karl Marx