Meher Diary Quotes & Sayings

[On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity. — Betty Rollin

As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness. — Rick Scarborough

It was a long time before I realized that you don't have to start right, you just have to start. Put pen to paper, allow yourself the freedom to write badly, to get it wrong, stop looking over your own shoulder. — Abigail Thomas

I am you, Umasi, and I am weak." the shadow spun around and began walking away. "In the end, either you will conquer me ... or I will conquer you. — Isamu Fukui

Because words are powerful; they can hurt and wound, and one word can lead to a thousand horrors. So don't forget to be impeccable with your words. — Kunal Nayyar

History - the product, not the raw material - is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs swallow them. — Neal Ascherson

It looked like she held a basketful of woven gold.
Arin leap down the stairs. He strode up to his cousin and seized her arm.
"Arin!"
"What did you do?"
Sarsine jerked away. "What she wanted. Pull yourself together."
But Arin only saw Kestrel as she had been last night before the ball. How her hair had been a spill of low light over his palms. He had threaded desire into those braids, had wanted her to sense it even as he dreaded that she would. He had met her eyes in the mirror, and didn't know, couldn't tell her feelings. He only knew the fire of his own.
"It's just hair," Sarsine said. "It will grow back."
"Yes," said Arin, "but no everything does. — Marie Rutkoski

What if I was born into a normal life, one without a tortured childhood and without the weight of so many responsibilities and burdens? — Kelly St. Clare

We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design. — Luc De Clapiers

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. — George Best

Keep walking forward on the road of life ... don't look backwards. The prize you are searching for is ahead of you ... not behind you! — Timothy Pina

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it. — Gerald Stanley Lee

I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the white area of South Africa and the destiny of South Africa depends on this essential point. If the principle of permanent residence for the black man in the area of the white is accepted then it is the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it in this country. — P. W. Botha

I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns. — Blake Mycoskie