Lysimaque Nummularia Quotes & Sayings

Whether you like me or not, the fact that you're precious to me won't change, no matter what. — Mari Okada

There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly ... Back in the day Leo Tolstoy
what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer
in the 1860's he wanted to write about the Napoleonic Campaign, about 1812. If you write about 1812 in 1860, a horse is still a horse. A carriage is still a carriage. Obviously, there are been some technological advancements, et cetera, but you don't have to worry about explaining the next killer [iPhone] app or the next Facebook because right now things are happening so quickly. ("Gary Shteyngart: Finding 'Love' In A Dismal Future", NPR interview, August 2, 2010) — Gary Shteyngart

The map of our life is folded in such a way that we cannot see one main road across it, but as it is opened out, we are constantly seeing new side roads. We think we are choosing, and we have no choice. — Jean Cocteau

The harder road. Because she was a woman? Because she was short? Because her law school ranked top-ten but not top-five? "Hey. — Tara Conklin

I don't even like to cry in private. — Lynn Coady

The idea of holiness is so central to biblical teaching that it is said of God, "Holy is his name" (Luke 1:49). His name is holy because He is holy. He is not always treated with holy reverence. His name is tramped through the dirt of this world. It functions as a curse word, a platform for the obscene. That the world has little respect for God is vividly seen by the way the world regards His name. No honor. No reverence. No awe before Him. — R.C. Sproul

There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life. — Victor Hugo

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change. — John Cleese

Pain was simply an inevitability of living, and I had to learn how to trust him with his own, as I trusted him with mine. — Alexis Hall

A little voice in the back of my head said, Don't trust him! You're not special! You're weird and awkward and a bigheaded Neanderthal freak with Medusa hair! He's confused you with someone else! Almost immediately, I told that voice to eat shit and die. — Penny Reid

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on. — Robin McKinley

Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and to be free from the past. Without forgiveness, we remain tethered to the person who harmed us. We are bound to the chains of bitterness, tied together, trapped. Until we can forgive the person who harmed us, that person will hold the keys to our happiness, that person will be our jailor. When we forgive, we take back control of our own fate and our feelings. We become our own liberator. — Desmond Tutu

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant. — Daniel J. Boorstin

There comes a time when a sorcerer must triumph on his own or die. — Gene Wolfe

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there. — Andre Agassi