Midgrade Quotes & Sayings

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it. — Yann Martel

People are naturally imperfect. No matter what your relationship, whether parent, child, friend or lover, there will always be mistakes on both sides. It's how we choose to accept the flaws of the people who surround us that determines our peace. — Kate J. Squires

Lanny smiled to himself. His chief called himself a "liberal," and Lanny had been trying to make up his mind just what that meant. He decided that a liberal was a high-minded gentleman who believed the world was made in his own image. — Upton Sinclair

It never works that way. Once that ugliness has been forced into you, it becomes part of your blood, dilutes it, races through your heart and back out again, staining everything as it goes. The ugliness never goes away, never comes out, no matter what you do. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive. All you can do is hope to control it. — Dennis Lehane

Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for help. Gale knees him in the side of the head and takes his gun. — Suzanne Collins

Her profession did not fascinate him in the least, and he had no boyhood memories of tenderness or embarrassment to soften him toward the subtleties of her trade; when he looked at her, he saw only a catalogue of indiscretions. — Eleanor Catton

Once a man's will is set, he need no longer rely on others or expect anything from the world. His vision encompasses Heaven and earth, past and present, and the tranquility of his heart is undisturbed. — Yoshida Shoin

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it. — Charles Dickens

I come from a theatrical background, where, if you're working on a movie or a play, you always respect the people you work with. You're accommodating. — Derek Hough

At base, financial literacy is inextricably connected to control over one's future. — Ann Cotton

The sun rises not to be mediocre, but to shine; so should you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

you are the master of your thought, the molder of your character, and the maker and shaper of your condition, environment, and destiny. — James Allen

It is asserted, however, that each one of us behaves in some one respect like a paranoic, corrects some aspect of the world which is unbearable to him by the construction of a wish and introduces this delusion into reality. A special importance attaches to the case in which this attempt to procure a certainty of happiness and a protection against suffering through a delusional remoulding of reality is made by a considerable number of people in common. The religions of mankind must be classed among p. 31 the mass-delusions of this kind. — Sigmund Freud

This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them. — Yasser Arafat

We caught him," I said. "Thats the fun part." For us, at least. I doubt the fish would agree. — Kathy Reichs