Schifferer Built Quotes & Sayings

Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then. — Robert Harris

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing. — Richard Flanagan

Our point, however, is not to worship the Bible; we worship the God of the Bible. — John H. Walton

Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities — Mitch Albom

I love you. And if I have to let you go to make you happy, I'll do it. — Kristin Hannah

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. — Alan W. Watts

With bated breath we wait for the scent of perfection, accompanied by the freshness of love. — Saim .A. Cheeda

Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there — Clive James

He liked the staccato beat of the rain drumming on the roof of the carving shed. — R.J. Harlick

How focused you are, defines the intensity of success you are going to get. — Harsh Malik

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc. — Alexander Theroux

He understood the half-life of hope: it is not despair that destroys us, but its opposite. Hope is the winding, despair the unwinding. Despair brings with it the possibility of an ending. Taken to the extreme, its logical conclusion is death. But hope sustains. It can be exploited. Ormsby — John Connolly

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round. — Alfred Douglas

You were listening to some strangers when you could have benn listening to me talk about myself? Chelsea, how could you? — Leila Sales

Kennedy was not perfectly sure that Khrushchev was an entirely rational being. He was not absolutely certain that the Soviet Union wouldn't be happy to rule a world that was half toxic ash. — Mal Peet