Loreta Velazquez Quotes & Sayings

In a short story, you can use someone - we're only going to be with that person for maybe 10 pages, and they can have sort of a one note personality. And in a novel, you need to have arrows pointing more than one direction for that person. — Rebecca Makkai

For he who loses all often easily loses himself. — Primo Levi

I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her. — Lorraine Toussaint

Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all. — Sun Tzu

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things. — Mother Teresa

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. — Ovid

We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp. — Lance Armstrong

That which is evil is soon learned. — John Ray

If you sincerely love yourself then you will take 100% full responsibility for your thoughts and actions. — Matthew Donnelly

Each time you stare at a blank page, you end up staring at yourself. — Angelos Michalopoulos

Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring. — Thalassa Cruso

We become the people who are made by our family and society when we are ignorant of who we are — Sunday Adelaja

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived. — William Hamilton

He reacted like I slapped him, and I hated hurting him, but I knew he needed to know. "He doesn't deserve it. He can have any girl in the world's love, and he took yours. Someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling." He stood and started to walk away, but stopped and glanced back at me. "If you were mine, I would never let you go." He left the kitchen. — Abbi Glines