Lincklaen Quotes & Sayings

As with anything you set out to learn in life, you don't get from point A to point Z without touching upon all those letters in between. — Jill Whalen

God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission ... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business. — Leonard Sweet

LINCKLAEN, JOHN. (Agent of the Holland Land Company.) Journals of Travels into Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont (1791-1792). Translated from French by Helen Lincklaen Fairchild. With biographical sketch and notes. New York, Putnams: 1897. — Anonymous

I started out as a writer with an hour removed from Kingdom of Heaven. You have to make one print for the entire world, and that's something that influences the theatrical cuts of pictures to an enormous degree. It's a reality. You can't have one cut for the Sunni, and one for the Shia, and one each for Tories, Whigs, vegetarians, one cut for the Cineplex, and one for literary intellectuals. — William Monahan

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well, — David McCullough

Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government. — Thomas Pynchon

I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my
verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have
shunned wit steeped in venom
not a letter of mine is dipped
in poisonous jest. — Ovid

True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge. — Confucius

The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light? — Gautama Buddha

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds. — Jeffrey Donovan

The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. — Tavi Gevinson

I met so many young girls and even older women who had literally been through so much that I couldn't even imagine. I was maybe a little more closed-minded, and I learned from them never to judge anyone. — Demi Lovato

But instability like mine needs considerable distance to pass for mere quirkiness. — Terri Cheney