Proceder En Quotes & Sayings

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them. — George Washington

You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward myself? Am I more a critic than a friend? Do I look beyond the surface blemishes to find the truly beautiful and unique person that I am? Or do I play the destructive "comparison game"? What verdict does the juror of my mind pass on me: "good at heart" or "guilty on all counts"? — John Powell

Even as a child Gates had an obsessive personality and a compulsive need to be the best. "Any school assignment, be it playing a musical instrument or writing papers, whatever, he would do at any or all hours of the day". — James Wallace

The longer he remained on this earth, the more he was sure that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate. — Amy Harmon

It came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free. — Isobelle Carmody

The fish adores the bait. — George Herbert

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing. — Ernest Hemingway,

Life is a dream, a little more coherent than most. — Herman Wouk

To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom. — Leah Stewart

He who cannot be faithful to one will be faithful to none. — Anonymous

Economists had found an almost one-to-one match between PISA scores and a nation's long term economic growth. Many other things influenced economic growth, of course, but the ability of a workforce to learn, think and adapt was the ultimate stimulus package ... For students, PISA scores were a better predictor of who would go to college than report cards ... PISA wasn't measuring memorization; it was measuring aspiration. — Amanda Ripley

I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective. — Gail Carriger

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music. — Adam Jones

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation. — Siobhan Dowd