Mixsal Quotes & Sayings

An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague, no? After all, how do you actually have an entire city - or country, for that matter - be a character a reader can follow? One way is by making it smaller and personalizing it, by writing specifically about the citizens and the way they contend with the reality, even minutiae, especially minutiae, of their lives. — Said Sayrafiezadeh

A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology , sociology , economics , linguistics , art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it the element of the sacred . — Mircea Eliade

Tip 7. Read good books until the characters in each story run from you in terror. — James W. Lewis

Maybe he was overreacting ... Somehow you were meant to take responsibility, minute to minute, for deciding which events you would call manageable, now that none of them were. — Chris Cleave

The first step in taking control of a nation, Arteth, is the simplest. You find someone to hate. — Brandon Sanderson

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place. — August Wilson

In Matthew 16:19, Jesus said that He would give us the keys to the Kingdom. Faith is the major key that opens every door in the Kingdom. It is a master key. Therefore it is imperative that we understand the ways of faith. Because these keys are the ways of God the natural man cannot receive them. They are spiritually understood. They are foolishness to the natural man. When a gift of the Spirit operates. Then we are able to impart that gift to others and teach them how to function in it also. — Phil Pringle

I wanted to say: 'Look, do you want me to actually be Richard Slater? Is that your big idea? Because, I'd say, overall I prefer me to Richard Slater and I think you do too. You don't get to cherry-pick the good aspects of Richard Slater and add them to all my stuff. You take the Slater swimming but you'll be stuck with all the other tedious Slaterisms into the bargain! — David Mitchell

As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood. — Christina Engela

My philosophy is this: Life is too short to work another minute at a job you don't love. — J.R. Rain

The Bear son was surrounded. But it did not matter. He cut thorugh them all, laughing. — Tessa Gratton

If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable. — Thomas Pynchon

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it. — Christine Baranski