Meiselwitz Quotes & Sayings

After a while Estevan said, What I really hate is not belonging in any place. To be unwanted everywhere. — Barbara Kingsolver

A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have. — Nadine Gordimer

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He'd find out, he thought and nodded as he rose. " Are you worried about you? "
It surprised her, the gentleness in his voice, the light brush of his knuckles over her jaw. She could lean against him, she realized with a jolt. She could lay her head on that shoulder, close her eyes, and for a moment at least, everything would be all right.
She nearly stepped forward before she decided it would be foolish. " You're not going to be nice to me, are you? "
" Maybe. " It might have been the confusion in her eyes, or that sultry scent that wafted from her skin, but he needed to touch. He laid his hands on her shoulders, rubbed while his eyes stayed on hers. " Do you need help? — Nora Roberts

Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age. — John Ruskin

Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you're still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose. — Steve Maraboli

Law it is ... which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands. — Marsilio Ficino

Cooking? Oh we were great, you'd take anything and melt cheese on it, and the one who could guess what it was didn't have to wash up! — Dylan Moran

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy. — Gloria Trevi

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial ... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail. — Winston S. Churchill