Shiftless Origin Quotes & Sayings

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. — Leo Tolstoy

When, as my friend suggested, I stand before Zeus (whether I die naturally, or under sentence of History)I will repeat all this that I have written as my defense.Many people spend their entire lives collecting stamps or old coins, or growing tulips. I am sure that Zius will be merciful toward people who have given themselves entirely to these hobbies, even though they are only amusing and pointless diversions. I shall say to him : "It is not my fault that you made me a poet, and that you gave me the gift of seeing simultaneously what was happening in Omaha and Prague, in the Baltic states and on the shores of the Arctic Ocean.I felt that if I did not use that gift my poetry would be tasteless to me and fame detestable. Forgive me." And perhaps Zeus, who does not call stamp-collectors and tulip-growers silly, will forgive. — Czeslaw Milosz

You can build your strength, If you read enough books! — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't mind writing philosophical thoughts. If I don't want to die like one. — Debasish Mridha

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them. — Marita Golden

The worse a person is the less he feels it. — Seneca The Younger

The only really interesting thing is
what happens between two people in a room. — Francis Bacon

A LIE IS LIKE A BAD NEIGHBORHOOD;
IT'S NOT SAFE TO LIVE IN — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

If you criticize what you're doing too early you'll never write the first line.
[Paris Review, interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989] — Max Frisch