Sarante Athenson Quotes & Sayings

I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help. — Janet Morris

I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead. — Abraham Maslow

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father. — Bernardo Bertolucci

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this. — Margaret Atwood

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. — Oscar Wilde

Then she pulled back slightly, evening our eyes. "Did you see my face?"
My breath caught in my throat.
A satisfied smile slid across her contented face, as she closed her eyes. "I thought so. — J. Nathan

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz opened up a new line of attack on Donald Trump, targeting his involvement in Trump University, a for-profit, non-licensed now defunct institution which triggered lawsuits from individuals who claimed they were defrauded by him, as well as a suit alleging fraud from New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman. — Chris Hayes

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way. — Lester B. Pearson

Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big. — Hoda Kotb

I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience. — Kevin Costner

Death
a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh. — Marcus Aurelius

Debt ... that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force. — Margaret Atwood

The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will. — D.R. Silva

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. — Frances Wright