Philip Margolin Quotes & Sayings

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin. — Stanley Schmidt

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight. — J.C. Ryle

Compassion does not have to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness does not imply friendship. Understanding why someone has inflicted pain on us is how we set ourselves free of the past, not how we excuse someone's behaviour so they can continue to abuse us. — Vironika Tugaleva

It's a great honor when somebody takes your song and does something different with it. That's what music is all about: to constantly change what somebody else has done. — Laurent Brancowitz

He knew he had a lot to learn - that was why he was asking questions. — James Dashner

You don't lose your swing between the ninth green and the tenth tee, and you don't lose your swing from one day to the next. If you think you do, something is going on that you don't understand. A diary might help explain it to you. — Harvey Penick

They knew that life was a struggle, and though the odds were a bit longer for people like them, that fact didn't excuse failure. "Never be like these fucking losers who think the deck is stacked against them," my grandma often told me. "You can do anything you want to." Their community shared this faith, and in the 1950s that faith appeared well founded. — J.D. Vance

A great man is made so for others. — Thomas F. Wilson

You are a little band of awareness and your awareness moves from one state of mind to another. — Frederick Lenz

Obviously it won't do to love somebody and enjoy that person's company but then, when things between you get difficult, to abandon the person. No, it is clear that as pleasant as love is, it must also be unpleasant, because people are sometimes unpleasant or go through unpleasant things, and if we abandon them at those times and run away from them because they or their situation has become unpleasant, we would have to conclude that there wasn't much to our loving in the first place. — Norman Fischer

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime. — Anita Roddick

You may exist in
this world
but I exist too
and I will not yield — Matthew Quick

In their wedding photos, they both have the blank-eyed, sedated look of recent trauma victims. — Liane Moriarty

Don't whine, complain, or make excuses. — John Wooden