Larder With A Servant Quotes & Sayings

Calling a piece of short fiction a "tale" removes it at least slightly from the realm of mundane works and days, as it evokes the world of the folk tale, the wonder tale, and the long-ago teller of tales. — Margaret Atwood

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died. — H. Beam Piper

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water. — Anwar Sadat

She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it. — Milton Berle

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. — Francis Bacon

Self-confidence is not the same thing as ego. This is not to say that the two don't (frequently) dance hand in hand down the street, pushing over old ladies in crosswalks and kicking baby kittens. But they are definitely not the same entity. Ego is thinking you have all the answers. Self-confidence is knowing you don't have the answers, but being pretty sure that you will be able to find them. — Maggie Stiefvater

Suddenly she was standing at Tara again with the world about her ears, desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender-hearted. — Margaret Mitchell

I knew a young lady of the last "romantic" generation who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a gentleman, whom she might quite easily have married at any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their union, and ended by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy her own caprice, and to be like Shakespeare's Ophelia. Indeed, if this precipice, a chosen and favourite spot of hers, had been less picturesque, if there had been a prosaic flat bank in its place, most likely the suicide would never have taken place. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all. — Chrissie Wellington

How can I light a candle? Before I light this candle, this darkness needs to be thrown out. — Osho

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not. — Michel De Montaigne

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive. — Kelly Rowland

It could only be the employment of carriage whips, tongs, iron pokers, handsaws, stones, paperweights, or whatever might be handy to break the black body, the black family, the black community, the black nation. The bodies were pulverized into stock and marked with insurance. And — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Take responsibility for making conscious choices. — Deepak Chopra