Predecessor Opposite Quotes & Sayings

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am in my career, or what I'm supposed to be doing. In fact, I'm not supposed to be doing anything. Just finding projects that are challenging to me. I want to be a writer who keeps growing and figuring out new things and hopefully people will follow me along as I publish these things. — Colson Whitehead

I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy. — Kara Goucher

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth. — Helen Van Slyke

Don't fall into the trap of letting others do everything for you. It's noble to accept help when you need it, lazy to accept it when yo don't. — Fiona Paul

Would it be an indiscretion to ask to see those precious pills?" continued Beauchamp, hoping to take him at a disadvantage.
"No, Monsieur," returned the count; and he drew from his pocket a marvelous bonbonniere, formed out of a single emerald, and closed by a golden lid, which unscrewed and gave passage to a small of greenish color, and about the size of a pea."
... "this is a magnificent emerald, and the largest I have ever seen," said Chateu-Renaud ...
"I had three similar ones," returned Monte Cristo; "I gave one to the Grand Signior, who mounted it in his saber; another to our holy father the pope, who had it set in his tiara, opposite to nearly as large, though not so fine a one, given by Emperor Napolen to his predecessor Pius VII. I kept the third for myself, and I had it hollowed out, which reduced its value, but rendered it more commodious for the purpose I intended it for."
Every one looked at Monte Cristo with astonishment ... — Alexandre Dumas

Whatever you sow, you will reap. Sow the seeds of love, kindness and peace. — Lailah Gifty Akita