Nding Desk Quotes & Sayings

We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church. — Pope Shenouda III

The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism. — Pete Hamill

What you're saying," I clarify through clenched teeth, "is that call boys don't make it far in government. — S. Hunter Nisbet

If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be. — Patrick Rothfuss

Longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings. — Stephen Cope

Some things you just have to take on faith and believe in at the risk of getting hurt. It's one of the things that the Fair Folk will never understand, and it's something that sets us apart from them. The fact that each and every time we believe in each other we take a risk. Because we know that it might NOT be the truth. But we also know that it MIGHT be. — Lesley Livingston

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. — Martin Luther King Jr.