Ramblings Of A Writer Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is sometimes born of pain — Sheri L. Swift

The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long. — William Shakespeare

Even as the law uncovers sin and forbids it, it does not provide the power to subdue it. — John Bunyan

I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system. — George Wald

Don't expect others to change. Instead, take on the project and see if you can become the change you want to see in the world. Try your best to let go of anger, blame and seeing yourself as a victim. — Sharon Gannon

Faith comes not through pondering but through action. — Tito Colliander

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion. — Horace Mann

Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor. — John Foster Dulles

Just skate for fun, don't pick up a skateboard because you want to be a pro one day. Don't forget why you started skating in the first place. — Steve Caballero

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary. — John Ruskin

The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound. — E.B. White

A few years ago one of my wives, when talking about wives leaving their husbands said, 'I wish my husband's wives would leave him, every soul of them except myself.' That is the way they all feel, more or less, at times, both old and young. — Brigham Young

If you don't want a man to lie,
don't force him to reply. — Volodymyr Knyr

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way. — Mika.

Everyone thinks that it was the big strong caveman who got the girl, and for the most part, that may have been true, but physical strength doesn't explain how our species created civilization. I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation. When the big ape men ended up running off the cliff or getting killed while trying to beat a mastodon into submission with a stick, the dreamer was standing back thinking 'Hey, that might work, but you need to run the mastodon off the cliff.' And, then he'd mate with the women left over after the go-getters got killed. — Christopher Moore