Maischberger Trailers Quotes & Sayings

Creating something out of nothing means making something up. But when you make something out of something, you take things that are already there, like an emotion, and you turn it into a narrative. The nature of literature is not to invent things, but to articulate what is already there. When you read a good book you don't think that the author is making up lies, but you say, "Oh, yes, I know what he is talking about." The fact that you know this means that it isn't made up. — Etgar Keret

The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem. — Maurice Makalu

The Russians were unparalleled in their suffering, the English in their reserve, the Americans in their love of life, the Italians in their love of Christ, and the French in their hope of love. — Paullina Simons

Excellence is not an act, but habit. — Aristotle.

When we express kindness, we can't help but experience kindness. - Elissa M. Schauer — Gary Chapman

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion. — Farley Mowat

Tom [Cargil]s suggestion with a further idea: Propsers of new [C++] features should be required to donate a kidney. That would - Jim [Waldo] pointed out - make people think hard before proposing, and even people without any sense would propose at most two extensions. — Bjarne Stroustrup

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. — Jack Henry Abbott