Menawan Wood Quotes & Sayings

A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom. — Roz Savage

Patron Saint of Failures St Birgitta of Sweden. — Alain De Botton

I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer. — Jim Crace

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation. — William Zinsser

His blue-green eyes were dark pools of immeasurable depth, pools you could drown yourself in and never again come up for air. — Robert Thier

To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution. — Walter Dean Myers

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once. — Honore De Balzac

Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal. — Willis R. Whitney

Don't let the magic slip away," he says, "or you'll sink into the quicksand of the ordinary. — Elena Gorokhova