Sarah Waters Goodreads Quotes & Sayings

But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years. — David Lloyd

With a little faith, people can fix things, and they truly can change, because at that moment, you could not believe otherwise. — Mitch Albom

It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. — Thomas Paine

But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom. — MacDonald Harris

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers. — George Santayana

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means. — George Bernard Shaw

It is not easy to be honest because it is impossible to be complete. — Ariana Reines

W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf