Partenie Clinceni Quotes & Sayings

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. — David Rockefeller

Keep moving onwards! — Lailah Gifty Akita

With great humility brings great grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything will be all right in the end ... if it's not all right then it's not yet the end. — Deborah Moggach

I know from vast experience that fear talks a lot louder than courage. I need to listen to that other voice inside me, that faint one that's struggling to be heard. — Lesley Kagen

Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. Was Father Tom thinking about vengeance now? The possibility amused him. Perhaps the next time he went to confession he would ask him. A priest should understand. That was his job, wasn't it? To understand and forgive? Maybe understanding would come with death. — Julie Garwood

I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence. — Marge Piercy

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't. — Aaron Sorkin

Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me. — Arthur Conan Doyle

A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one fault of the Long Parliament; but more remarkably of Holland, whose assembly first voted themselves from annual to septennial, then for life, and after a course of years, that all vacancies happening by death or otherwise, should be filled by themselves, without any application to constituents at all. — John Adams

We don't read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are experiencing. — Darynda Jones

True faith is not a leap in the dark; it's a leap into the light. — Eric Metaxas

There's this sloth in the jungle walking from one tree to another, and it's mugged by a gang of snails, and when the police ask the sloth if it could identify any of its attackers, it says, 'I don't know; it all happened so quickly... — Iain Banks