Lector Prep Quotes & Sayings

I suppose it's a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself then the world will ever dare inflict. — Chuck Palahniuk

Awareness of your weakness is the first step for correction — Nasser Musliyar

[Julie] had lived a great deal among lies, before plumping for a small life of her own, a sincere and restricted life from which all pretense, even in matters sensual, was banished. How many crazy decisions and allegiances to successive aspects fo the truth! Had she not, one day when her costume for a fancy dress had demanded short hair, cut off the great chestnut mane that fell below her waist when she let it down? 'I could have hired a wig,' she thought. 'I might also, at a pinch, have passed the rest of my life with Becker or Espivant. If it comes to that, I could also have gone on stirring puddings in a saucepan at Carneilhan. The things "one might have done" are, in fact, the things one could not do ... — Colette

"Thinking" is not something we talk about. — Joseph Barrell

I'm inclined to think that, after a certain age, our tastes, instincts and inclinations harden like concrete. — David Nicholls

Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have to pack it on. — Katherine Webb

You are my best present and ultimate purpose of life. — Debasish Mridha

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs. — T-Pain

Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one. — Eleanor Catton

I have a really grounded group of friends, and they like me no matter what. I think it's really important to know who your real friends are. — Jackson Guthy

When age is jocond it makes sport for death.
[When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.] — George Herbert

Doing good to others is the # one great Universal Religion — Swami Vivekananda

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature. — Thomas Aquinas

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being. — Bruce Lee