Quotes & Sayings About Loss Of Innocence In Night By Elie Wiesel

I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone. — Melissa De La Cruz

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. — August Wilson

If you go 72-11 and don't win (the championship), it doesn't mean anything. Actually it does. It means you've cheated and played an extra regular-season game. — Shaquille O'Neal

He has explained why it is that ambiguity touches his heart more nearly than the death and marriage style of finish that i prefer. — Diane Setterfield

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation. — Sophie Swetchine

She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar. — Paulo Coelho

She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis. — John Horne Burns

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. — William Cowper

We need to participate directly in the evolution of consciousness, which, at its core, is the evolution of love. — Marc Gafni

I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me. — Timothy B. Schmit

If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back. — Joseph Lowery

The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up. — Thomas Paine