Separate Vocations Quotes & Sayings

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock. — David Bergen

We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days. — Faramir

No-one ever built a statue of a critic. — David Nicholls

My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.' — Logan Lerman

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself. — Edward Gibbon

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action. — D.H. Lawrence

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. — Cass McCombs

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain. — Ivan Goncharov

Maybe love was lying to yourself. — Lauren Kate

The best learning I had came from teaching. — Corrie Ten Boom

I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. — Dorothy Allison

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. — Cat Stevens

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47. — Abigail Disney

You can always count on people to crowded your party when you're in glory but you should never dream of people sending you charcoal in the cold. — Lisa See

I love the hip-hop nation. — Pam Grier