Quintaine Americana Quotes & Sayings

If we don't love ourselves, tell me, how can we love somebody else? — R. Kelly

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death. — Mason Cooley

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers. — Margaret Deland

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome. — Marguerite Duras

Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength. — Markus Zusak

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood. — James F. Cooper

Dorian could only stare at her. This was different from the feral creature she'd become the night Nehemia had died. What she was right now, the edge on which she was balancing ... Wyrd help them all.
But than Chaol was at her chair, grasping her elbow. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"
Celaena looked up at him and smiled sweetly. "Your job, apparently." She shook off his grip with a thrash, then got up from her seat, stalking around the table. — Sarah J. Maas

A man's gift will give him freeway in the world — Sunday Adelaja

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish. — Bill Owens

When you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous. — Henry Miller

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions. — Wassily Kandinsky