Lovemore Lavender Quotes & Sayings

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. — St. Lucia

Soot is a mixture of chemicals that would eventually be found to contain several carcinogens. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

When I sing for God, I feel myself in accord with God, and the house of God, Mecca, is right in front of me. And I worship. When I sing for Mohammed, peace be upon him, our prophet, I feel like I am sitting right next to his tomb, Medina, and paying him respect and admitting to myself that I accept his message. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great — Zig Ziglar

The journey makes things valuable not the title. Learn to enjoy and value the process of what God is doing. — Bill Johnson

While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders. — Gary Hamel

Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter. — Reggie Lewis

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people. — Howard Zinn

The contrast between earthly and spiritual is not a contrast between the tangible and the intangible; it is between the transitory and the eternal. Earthly is temporary, spiritual is everlasting. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 127] — Edward T. Welch

There is no such thing as the last straw. There is only hay. — Mark Z. Danielewski

It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a wilderness purchased for strings of beads, but you find it impossible not to believe that it has always been a city; that if you dug beneath it you would find the ruins of another, older city, and then another and another. — Michael Cunningham

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough? — Patrick Rothfuss

I think I really believed my childish thoughts back then. Using the determination of the poor, the childish thought that I can do it if I tried with all my might. But in reality ... I never did get to defeat him. No. I couldn't beat him. — Kim Young-kwang

I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam. — Alex Turner

If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is. — Blaise Pascal