Macdermott Quotes & Sayings

I normally sleep very well, but when I do have bad dreams, they always involve my children. — Michael Robotham

Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material. — Hermann Hesse

For the most part, we hesitate to instruct, to admonish, and, as occasion demands, to correct, and even to reprehend them. This we do either because the effort wearies us, or we fear offending them, or we avoid antagonizing them lest they thwart or harm us in those temporal matters where our cupidity ever seeks to acquire or our faint hearts fear to lose. — Augustine Of Hippo

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual. — Jill McCorkle

Through the rain and snow, — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Forgive. Forgive him and forgive yourself. And come back to the land of the living. — Michael Grant

Tis in ourselves that we are thus
or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant
nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or
distract it with many, either to have it sterile
with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power and corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills. If the balance of our lives had not one
scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
to most preposterous conclusions: but we have
reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that
you call love to be a sect or scion. — William Shakespeare

For only the humans were endowed with the lust for power so strong that the raw passion of their nature could be easily corrupted. — Margaret Weis

Don't be angry, Finnula had said, be smart. — Sarah J. Maas

Every night before bed, I rub my wife's feet. She says they're the best foot rubs on Earth. — Luke Bryan

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship! — Edward Carpenter

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. — Christian Nestell Bovee

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice. — Cecilia Bartoli