Ray Lipowski Quotes & Sayings

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality. — Isabel Allende

We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter
exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place
the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan. — Mark Twain

In every person, there is a doer and a devil. With every passing days, the doer dies and a devil has to rise. — Santosh Kalwar

Live and learn and pass it on. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

He hadn't a cent in his pocket, but he had faith ! — Paulo Coelho

It is an apology," he said, "for not believing in you ... or in us. Yesterday, I thought I'd lost you, and then we fought together," he said. "I pushed you away for fear of what our relationship would do, could do, to this House. And then we protected this House together. That is the true measure of what we could do. — Chloe Neill

I know what you thought, what you always thought of me.
It's so much easier that way, isn't it? — Leigh Bardugo

Write a million words before thinking about getting published. — Carol Berg

Me to characters: talk to me people. — Buffy Andrews

I want you to meet her. If for any reason you suspect anything strange about her ---"
Hilde laughed. "I'll let you know if she tries to kill me. — B. J. Daniels

Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white. — Jay Rayner

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration. — Alan Watts

Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending. — Teresa Mummert

People will pay more to be entertained than educated. — Johnny Carson

The following morning, I swore to myself that I would not try to find out where Esther was living. For two years, I had unconsciously preferred to believe that she had been forced to leave, that she had been kidnapped or was being blackmailed by some terrorist group. Now that I knew she was alive and well (that was what the young man had told me), why try to see her again? My ex-wife had the right to look for happiness, and I should respect her decision. This idea lasted a little more than four hours; later in the afternoon, I went to a church, lit a candle and made another promise, this time a sacred, ritual promise: to try and find her. Marie — Paulo Coelho