Requests For Waivers Quotes & Sayings

Life has its ugliness and ups and downs, but look for the beauty and you will find it. — Debasish Mridha

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work. — Ray Bradbury

There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt. — Sylvester Stallone

As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly. — Tibor Fischer

To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target. — Joe Hyams

In the city the wretched feel less sad. One can live there a hundred years without being noticed, and be dead a long time before anybody will notice it. — Leo Tolstoy

Finding a new ethics or esthetics, as Dr. Douglass asks, will not put us in a state of grace. Existence is not given meaning by importing it into a revelation from the outside. The meaning is - there, in more closely contacting the actual situation, the only situation that there is, whatever it is. As our situation is, closely contacting it would surely result in plenty of trouble and perhaps in terrible social conflicts, terrible opportunities and duties, during which we might learn something and at the end of which we might know something, even a new ethics; for it is in such conflicts that new ethics are discovered. But it is just these conflicts that we do not observe happening. Everybody talks nice. At most there is some unruliness and dumb protest, and some withdrawal.
So urging the juveniles to go to church is not serious, for how will the church give them faith? What opportunity will it open? — Paul Goodman

If there's one person in the world you should be with, there must be one person in the world you shouldn't be with. — Amy Zhang

The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his. — Sydney J. Harris

What do you know? She liked to be told she was scary. Kinky. — Kevin Hearne

I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a living. I didn't think of publishing, really, until I was out of college. — Ellen Datlow