Quiant Quotes & Sayings

do more of what makes you happy — Me

God can give us words of comfort or direction, and we can be very excited, filled with faith, feeling bold and able to conquer the enemy. — Joyce Meyer

We would do well to remember that envy is clearly the flint that ignites evil in our hearts. It apparently signals "I'm available" to demons searching for a cheap date. Envy is as volatile as nitroglycerin, and we cannot carry it inside us without evil exploding. — Craig Groeschel

I myself hope to live long enough to graduate from being a 'bad boy,' which I once was, to becoming a curmudgeon.... — Christopher Hitchens

The age of clear answers was over. So was the age of characters and plots. Despite her journal sketches, she no longer really believed in characters. They were quiant devices that belonged to the nineteenth century. The very concept of character was founded on errors that modern psychology had exposed. Plots too were like rusted machinery whose wheels would no longer turn. A modern novelist could no more write characters and plots than a modern composer could a Mozart symphony. It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well as the tributaries that would swell it, and the obstacles that would divert it. If only she could reproduce the clear light of a summer's morning, the sensations of a child standing at a window, the curve and dip of a swallow's flight over a pool of water. The novel of the future would be unlike anything in the past. — Ian McEwan

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand. — Helen Schucman