Shompole Quotes & Sayings

say the words out loud / yes / the ones that make your heart pinch / say them out loud — N.L. Shompole

I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Obama when it comes to civil liberties, and I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Romney when it comes to dollars and cents. — Gary Johnson

Nonviolence presupposes a level of humanness--however low it may be, in every human being. — Narayan Desai

There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street. — John J. Mack

Darling,
I know what
your eyes look like
when your heart is breaking. — N.L. Shompole

THEY KIDNAP AND MURDER MY HUSBAND ON OUR HONEYMOON My new husband and I are vacationing in Buenos Aires. — Mindy Kaling

Being isolated and alone and hurt day after day changes a person, Aden. It turns a child into . . . into a thing that isn't quite human and not quite animal. Like any trapped creature, that child will gnaw off its own limb to escape - but if that child is a Gradient 9.8 combat-grade telepath named Zaira Neve, it'll first ask if it can gnaw off its attackers' limbs instead. — Nalini Singh

Truth,
I can make you beg,
I can make you beg. — N.L. Shompole

When the ancients said a work well begun was half done, they meant to impress the importance of always endeavoring to make a good beginning. — Polybius

You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to make a point which is that a used book, unlike a used car, hasn't lost any of its initial value. A good story rolls of the lot into the hands of its new reader as smoothly as the day it was written. And there's another reason for these used paperbacks that never cost much even when new; I like the idea of holding a book that someone else has held, of eyes running over lines that have already seen the light of other eyes. That, in one image, is the community of readers, is the communion of literature. — Yann Martel

I believe so much in these products, and it's really satisfying when you believe in something. — Connie Sellecca

Judgment falls not on the unacceptable but only on those who will not accept acceptance — Robert Farrar Capon

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact. — Steve Buyer

When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go. — Alanis Morissette

When people die, their handwriting dies too. You don't think about that. — Maria Semple

The softhearted
guard their hearts
fiercely. — N.L. Shompole

In the presence of a newly minted human being, I am reminded of what wholeness looks like. And I am sometimes moved to wonder, "Whatever became of me? — Parker J. Palmer

Dostoevsky's hero is not only a discourse about himself and his immediate environment, but also a discourse about the world; he is not only cognizant, but an ideologist as well. The — Mikhail Bakhtin

Darling,
has anyone ever fought for you? — N.L. Shompole

It is precisely in that relationship to the Reader that you will find most of the classic faults of style: pretension, condescension, servility, obscurantism, grandiosity, vulgarity, and the like
even academicism. That's why most faults of style can be described in language relevant to human relations. Is your style frank and open ... does it have some understated agenda ... is it out to prove something it does not or cannot admit ... is it trying to impress ... show off ... is it kissing up ... groveling ... maybe just a tad passive-aggressive, with a mumbling half-audible voice that is unwilling to explain ... is it trying to convince ... overwhelm ... help ... seduce ... give pleasure ... inflict pain ... There is no area of the writer's work that is more responsive to the psychology of human connection than style. — Stephen Koch