Plainspoken Books Quotes & Sayings

The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me. — Robert Breault

I'm very eclectic, musically as in other things! But also to frame the hearing and knowing of Scripture within a context of worship, which is what Anglican liturgy does, just seems to me such a very complete and compelling thing. — N. T. Wright

Anger is a two-headed serpent;
one to bite whoever is holding it,
and the other to bite whoever it is thrown at. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are they unformed? I think that all these quite traditional questions can take one simplistic but still dialectical question as their summing up: do we choose tradition or does it choose us, and why is it necessary that a choosing take place, or a being chosen? What happens if one tries to write, or to teach, or to think, or even to read without the sense of a tradition? Why, nothing at all happens, just nothing. — Harold Bloom

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving. — Timothy Ferriss

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy. — Seneca The Younger

Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up 40 percent of Afghanistan's doctors, 70 percent of its teachers and 30 percent of its civil servants. A small number of women even held important political posts as members of Parliament and judges. Most women did not wear the burqa. — Eleanor Smeal

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do. — Michael D. Higgins

She was, he reflected, one of his closest friends, in a rather curious, slightly old-fashioned way. — Alexander McCall Smith