Joyelle Douglas Quotes & Sayings

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight. — Nancy Lublin

The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms. — Darren Shan

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you. — Mercedes Lackey

Yates's determinism, like Flaubert's, was a matter of knowing his characters well enough to know their fates, and making the reader see this, too. Just as one never expects Emma to repent of her infidelity and embrace provincial life, one also figures the Wheelers won't move to Europe and live happily ever after. Their weaknesses, well defined at the outset, mark them for a bad end. — Blake Bailey

Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else. — Hillary Clinton

A leader is a dealer in hope. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Know the male, but hold to the female. Imagine a river flowing through a valley, never departing from its original path. Do this and you will return to a state of innocence. Perceive the bright, but hold to the dark. Like a river, let yourself flow with virtue, and set a faultless example for the world. Do this and you will return to a state of perfection. Be aware of honour, but hold to humility. Like a valley, let virtue fill you, sufficient yet everlasting. Do this and you will return to the state of the uncarved block. — Lao-Tzu

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love. — Susan Cain

Today is the day the Lord has made, be Glad & Enjoy It! — Bible Verses

To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished
until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth! — Jaroslav Pelikan

No writer can impose his own standards onto any other, nor claim to speak for the whole genre. — Mary Karr

Good fighters, they are so professional and quick, you can't see what's happening. It's very important: the fight is like a dialogue. Everybody has a line and an answer. — Timur Bekmambetov

...Time had seemed infinite when she still had many years and decades ahead of her. A book waiting to be written: as a girl, that was how she had seen her future life. Now she was sixty, and the pages were blank. Infinity had passed like one long continuous day. — Nina George

I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women. — Jodie Foster