Kapinskydavid Quotes & Sayings

My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one. — Jim Beaver

I just write the books that I think I would want to read. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of self, even though all of this creates a deception, a way to think of one's traces as a real way to define oneself. The trace is fallible, impermanent. It's one of the motives I had in mind throughout the text. — Sergio Chejfec

THE MAJOR WAY TO CONQUER FEAR IS TO MAKE A DECISION. — Lester Swan

The Reader [10w]
A poem cannot be greater than the mind examining it. — Beryl Dov

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! — Alexander Pope

We run things, things don't run we. — Miley Cyrus

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves. — Ronald A. Heifetz

My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another. — Angela Duckworth

He had always acted as if men were masters of forces, as if all things were possible for men determined in purpose and clear in thought - even the Presidency. This perhaps is what he had best learned in 1960 - even though he called his own victory a "miracle." This was what he would have to cherish alone in the White House, on which an impatient world waited for miracles. — Theodore H. White

Sometimes, one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the world beautiful and we maggots deforming even the trees with our lusts. — Virginia Woolf

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise. — Bertrand Russell

Out of the darkness came Mr Carsington's deep voice, cool and calm. Pray don't trouble yourselves, gentlemen. It is merely a villain come to cut our throats, rob our stores and ravish our women. No need for alarm. Mrs Pembroke has the matter in hand. — Loretta Chase

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. — Francesco Guicciardini