Plansant Quotes & Sayings

But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging. — Orson Scott Card

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life. — Edward Gibbon

Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists, for example, or a work by Cage. For me, there's a great value in doing this with literature. There's a certain form of dependence; process and product inform each other, depend on each other. I consider myself a writer who doesn't write with a style, almost. I begin with tension, with a vibe, a character. — Sergio Chejfec

Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on — Sophie Kinsella

As the mother knows the needs better than the babe, so the Blessed Mother understands our cries and worries and knows them better than we know ourselves. — Fulton J. Sheen

I love dressing up. As kids, my friends and I would dress up as the Spice Girls - Posh Spice was my favourite because I had short brown hair like her. — Eliza Doolittle

Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. — Herman Melville

It's much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch successful attacks against foreign adversaries. — Edward Snowden

Chess is not for timid souls. — Wilhelm Steinitz

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made. — Craig Venter

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. — Robert Bloch

Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic. — Philip Rieff

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists? — Catherynne M Valente

Now we have come to the end of the part about structure. However, it occurs to me to say more about structure. — John Cage

You must look for the good in people to have more of it appear. As you look only for the good things in a person, you will be amazed at what your new focus reveals. — Rhonda Byrne