Laitinen Finland Quotes & Sayings

Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out. — Marianne Williamson

One's identity derives not from one's nation or blood but from the language one uses. — Minae Mizumura

In a similar vein, Jared Diamond has observed: Personally, I can't fathom why Australia's giants should have survived innumerable droughts in their tens of millions of years of Australian history, and then have chosen to drop dead almost simultaneously (at least on a time scale of millions of years) precisely and just coincidentally when the first humans arrived. — Elizabeth Kolbert

The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and His works. When men stop praying for God's Spirit, they place confidence in their own unaided reason, and they gradually lose the Spirit of God. — Heber J. Grant

The man that blushes is not quite a brute. — Edward Young

I've watched a never-ending line of relationships crumple around me, with each sordid detail publicized to the world. I couldn't stand to hurt you that way. — Eden Summers

I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight. — Michael Spinks

An awesome thing children need is a frank smile from a sincere heart — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Think of life as a giant, fat cat you're in charge of. Sometimes you can control it, but other times, it's going to do what it wants and you have to roll with it. And sometimes you can do everything - everything you're s'posed to do- and it'll still shred all the things you hold dear ... The only thing you can really do with life is rub its belly and prepare for the worst. — R. K. Milholland

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. — Moshe Dayan

If the inspiration is genuine and it's coming from the right place, that's what I like and want to be a part of. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The one pair of eyes into which you can never gaze is your own. — John Ortberg

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak. — John Piper

We lived love. A love so tragic and beautiful that it's only fitting it doesn't have a happily ever after. — Stevie J. Cole