Powning It Quotes & Sayings

Was it mad to at least try to live as one wished, or as clost to it as possible? This life is mine, seh would think sometimes. This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.
-Cora — Laura Moriarty

Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose. — A.J. Flowers

Discipline has enemies, and one of them is you. — David Powning

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it. — Amelia Barr

A fighter cannot contemplate fear, let alone show it. Fear weakens you, gets you hurt. — David Powning

Outlawing the sale or barter of women marked Genghis Khan's first important departure from tribal practices regarding marriage, and gradually through a series of such changes he transformed the social position of his daughters, and thereby of all women, within his burgeoning empire. — Jack Weatherford

Many of those who can, do. Some of those who don't, write, and tend to criticize doing. — Samuel C. Florman

It's not just the wounded who suffer. — David Powning

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day. — Jeff Daniels

Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born — Neal Shusterman

Here you think the incentive to work is finances, need for money or desire for profit, but where there's no money the real motives are clearer, maybe. people like to do things. They like to do them well. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren't spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking. — David Powning