Saravasse Quotes & Sayings

My father used to say that hatred only hurts the hater; it does nothing to affect the hated. Which makes it an impractical emotion. — Sabrina Jeffries

Vigorous writing is concise. — Strunk Jr., William

It would be good now, I thought, to be in Paris. The afternoon city heat would have gone. It would be good to sit under the trees near the marionette theatre. It would be quiet there now. There would be no one there but a student or two reading. There you could listen to the rustle of leaves unconscious of the pains of humanity in labour, of a civilisation hastening to its own destruction. There, away from this brassy sea and blood-red earth, you could contemplate the twentieth-century tragedy unmoved; unmoved except by pity for mankind fighting to save itself from the primeval ooze that welled from its own subconscious being. — Eric Ambler

Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that counts, it's the person — The Doctor

Prose is walking; poetry is flying — Galway Kinnell

Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel. — Gerda Lerner

I can barely breathe when I think about it. But we have to think about it. I don't know how much longer I have to know you. We need to talk about what's going to happen. He — Lisa Genova

We all know what we should have done as we look backward. Yet looking backward further still, we may say that all goes as the Wild Magic wills. And we must look forward if we are to live long enough to look backward. — Mercedes Lackey

I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large. — Terry Pratchett

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery. — Sherley Anne Williams

There will always be a light in the darkness when we are willing to make compromises. — Jan Jansen

Song of Solomon told me a man and woman's passion is intended to be mutual." His smile dissolved and he looked troubled. "A shared blessing. — Francine Rivers

I had no sympathy for drama queens. — Gillian Flynn