Minetheft Quotes & Sayings

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it. — Samuel Smiles

Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that. — Joan Larkin

The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild. — Keith Preston

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in. — Augusten Burroughs

You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I love that country ham. Well you say I'm made just to fit your plans but there's a barnyard shovel pick your hands. If your eyes are on me you're lookin' at country. — Loretta Lynn

If there is a media in a country which deceives its own people, that country needs no other enemy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world. — Plato

Then there's those wizards on it, who must all be gifted hydrophobes - " "You mean they hate water?" said Twoflower. "No, that wouldn't work," said Rincewind. "Hate is an attracting force, just like love. They really loathe it, the very idea of it revolts them. — Terry Pratchett

Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific. — Chuck Palahniuk

Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity. — Doug Stanhope

Small-town churchgoers are often labeled hypocrites, and sometimes they are. But maybe they are also people who have learned to lived with imperfection, what Archbishop Rembert Weakland, a Benedictine, recently described as "the new asceticism." Living with people at close range over many years, as both monastics and small-town people do, is much more difficult than wearing a hair shirt. More difficult, too, I would add, than holding to the pleasant but unrealistic ideal of human perfectibility that seems to permeate much New Age thinking. — Kathleen Norris

Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise. — Karen DeCrow

Even an ancient monster needs a name. To name an illness is to describe a certain condition of suffering - a literary act before it becomes a medical one. A patient, long before he becomes the subject of medical scrutiny, is, at first, simply a storyteller, a narrator of suffering - a traveler who has visited the kingdom of the ill. To relieve an illness, one must begin, then, by unburdening its story. The — Siddhartha Mukherjee

All I know is that when I whisper to dirt, my conversations are less than meaningful. — Maggie Stiefvater