Microfiction Contests Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things. — Sue Monk Kidd

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military. — William O. Douglas

Wasn't there a tribe in Africa that lashed the dead body to the back of the one who had murdered it? That would certainly be justice - to carry the rotting corpse around as a physical burden as well as public shame and damnation. — Toni Morrison

We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in
the idle fancy that we already know
or that it is of no use seeking to
know what we do not know. — Plato

How soon will time cover all things. — Marcus Aurelius

The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst. Secrets are impossible. He identifies with his surroundings and they live within him unconsciously; it is perhaps for this reason that the small child has been characterized as naturally religious. — Mary Caroline Richards

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one. — J.D. Salinger

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris. — George V

Moistening her lips, she asked, "That's what this is all about? Bringing me here?"
His hesitation was so slight she almost missed it. "It could be. Probably is, after all."
"You still want to seduce me."
"I want whatever you can give me," he murmured against her ear. "Where we go from here may depend on what I can give you. — Jennifer Blake

As you may well know by now, the Givers are mysterious, and love to speak in riddles. It's more annoying than having sand in your underpants ... — James Dashner

The last pages of a book are already contained in the first. — Albert Camus