Maaadyne Quotes & Sayings

Things won't start your life for you. I'm learning that. You have have to start your life for yourself. — Hayley Williams

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb. — Richard Hofstadter

Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. — Louis Pasteur

I've told you many times that the first thing I decide is the kind of story I want. ( ... ) This is not the kind of story I want. The story we bought had shine and glow - it was a happy story. This is all full of doubt and hesitation. The hero and heroine stop loving each other over trifles - then they start up again over trifles. After the first sequence you don't care if she never sees him again or he her. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Nature has neither love nor hate, and with indifference smiles upon the light at heart and to the heavy brings a deeper sorrow. — W. Somerset Maugham

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all. — Corey Taylor

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive. — Eudora Welty

The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul ... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart. — Maya Angelou

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published. — Edmund White

How much better life must have been for jealous drunks before emails and texts and mobile phones, before all this electronica and the traces it leaves. — Paula Hawkins

Probably the hardest thing in the world for a man is the simple observation and acceptance of what is. Always we warp our pictures with what we hoped, expected, or were afraid of. In Russia we saw many things that did not agree with what we had expected, and for this reason it is very good to have photographs, because a camera has no preconceptions, it simply sets down what it sees. — John Steinbeck

I've read the 'Mortal Instruments' series; I was obsessed with those. — Amandla Stenberg

When you thank something negative for happening, or thank a negative thought for being there, you've just negated the negative and turned it into positive energy! — Donna Labermeier

The countries that have developed economically are those which were not colonized by the West; every country that was colonized by the West is a total wreck. — Noam Chomsky