Screwing Up Is Human Nature Quotes & Sayings

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent. — Berthold Auerbach

Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this, not only in the sacred books whose power everybody acknowledges, but by every movement of imagination in song or story or drama that height of intensity and sincerity has made literature at all. Literature must take the responsibility of its power, and keep all its freedom: it must be like the spirit and like the wind that blows where it listeth; it must claim its right to pierce through every crevice of human nature, and to descrive the relation of the soul and the heart to the facts of life and of law, and to describe that relation as it is, not as we would have it be ... — W.B.Yeats

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same. — Ben Savage

I tell a story, and therefore I exist. — Shekhar Kapur

As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy. — Gail Carriger

If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece of you and keep it with me. — Jessica Verday

Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions — Bryant McGill

You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you'll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have - and then go around saying: 'Actually, I'd also like to have won the Costa Book of the Year?' That would be ridiculous. — Sebastian Faulks

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. — Vicki Baum

Just as a fever makes cold feel colder, love can make loneliness feel lonelier. — Andrea Cremer

If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account. — Ben Bernanke

Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys ... — John Dryden