Knuckledust Quotes & Sayings

This must be what they call denial. It means things are too screwed up to deal with so you pretend they never happened, that you didn't notice. You gloss over the facts with little half-truths...You avoid looking each other in the eye because you're both hiding what you know. It deadens you. Layers of something like gel separate us. All we're left with are secrets and shame. — Jodi Lundgren

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility. — Peter Drucker

Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.
- Mr. Penderwick — Jeanne Birdsall

No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky's too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?'
'And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there's so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don't get any work done because we're all looking at it too much? — Patrick Ness

I, who called love my hope for love. — Clarice Lispector

Mr. Rochester : Your gaze is very direct, Miss Eyre. Do you think me handsome?
Jane Eyre: No, sir. — Charlotte Bronte

The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere. — Donny Osmond

It's all about balance. Balancing exercise, food, and life. No excesses. — Helen M. Ryan

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you. — Atul Gawande

The happy ending is our national belief. — Mary McCarthy

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren't going to finish a book. — Nora Roberts

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God. — David Hume

I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you. — Teresa Of Avila

If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you. — Steve Vai