Professionist Quotes & Sayings

We live in an environment in which sexuality is often trivialized and defiled, stripped of its emotional depth and divorced from its sacred root. — William Keepin

It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and body by which others can be tormented ... Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil. — Vincent De Paul

The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there. — Karl Ove Knausgard

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day. — Vanessa Kerry

Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality. — Clive James

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats. — Jeffrey Kluger

Is it possible to fall in love at thirteen, because I think I just looked into the eyes of the girl I want to look at forever. — Danielle Rocco

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization. — Nikola Tesla

The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite. — Edmund Spenser

Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix. — Don Lemon

And so I was scared. I was scared of my own sexual hunger, which felt so secretive and uncharted, and I was scared of the sexual hunger of boys, which felt so vivid and overt, and I was terribly uncertain of the relationships between sex and power and value, which seemed so merged and hard to tease apart. In the midst of all that, I didn't exactly loathe my body, or feel ashamed of it, but I was deeply ashamed of my fear, which felt disabling and immature and woefully, painfully uncool, a terrible secret, evidence of some profound failing and ignorance on my part. Other girls, or so I imagined, knew what to do, how to use their power, how to derive pleasure from it, and in contrast, I felt not only freakish but isolated, as though I was standing outside a vital, defining loop. — Caroline Knapp

If your twin was dead, were you still a twin? — Wally Lamb

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right? — Jean-Paul Sartre

On a shelf over the experiment table there was the inevitable skull, which the wizard put their to remind him of death, though it usually reminded him that he needed to go to the dentist. — John Bellairs

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame. — James Beattie