Nadjia Moore Quotes & Sayings

What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character? — David Mitchell

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. — Meister Eckhart

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God. — Wendell Berry

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that. — Barbra Streisand

Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I've never been a great cook. — Freddie Highmore

Great battles are won with artillery. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket. — Elbert Hubbard

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath. — Huangbo Xiyun

Sometimes it would even happen that this precocious hour would sound two strokes more than the last; there must then have been an hour which I had not heard strike; something which had taken place had not taken place for me; the fascination of my book, a magic as potent as the deepest slumber, had stopped my enchanted ears and had obliterated the sound of that golden bell from the azure surface of the enveloping silence. — Marcel Proust

Well, technically, they're going to take my brain apart neuron by neuron. But yes, they'll probably just rip yours out.' Under his breath, the Doctor added, 'If they can find it . . . — Trevor Baxendale

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things. — Helen Keller

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them. — Ricky Gervais

The big scandal was when I was in seventh grade and I modeled a bathing suit. Everybody freaked out! — Jennifer Morrison

There could be no snakes in Quintana Roo's garden.
Only later did I see that I had been raising her as a doll. — Joan Didion