Jtable Select Quotes & Sayings

When human beings are involved, statistics become a frightful game that I cannot play. People have said to me: 'But what are a few dozen casualties compared to the whole population?' 'Does it matter that a few churches have burned down since the city has survived?' These measurements I reject. The kingdom of man is not to be surveyed in this way. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Flesh heals. The soul can fester. — Gena Showalter

When I pick up a book and read it, I want to be transported. I want to be taken someplace that I didn't quite know existed, so that by the time I close the book, and return to my own reality, my world is expanded and has become a little larger and a little more complicated. — Anthony Marra

If you take energy and climate change, you really cannot deal with the problems with energy and climate change without European co-operation at a high level. If you take digitalisation, it's an obvious area where European co-operation can actually make a difference. — Gordon Brown

Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book. — Brandon Sanderson

He has a need for attention, to have attention focused on him - for better or worse. The worst punishment I can give him is to ignore him, which I've done, fairly successfully, — Nora Roberts

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip. — Louis Kronenberger