Short Unperfect Quotes & Sayings

I don't believe one writes for oneself. I think that writing is an act of love- you write in order to give something to someone else. To communicate something. to have other people share your feelings. This problem of how long your work survives is fundamental for a novelist or a poet. One hopes for a sense of continuity. — Umberto Eco

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less. — Simon Mawer

God bless all the little children in the world. — Richard Dawson

Being an artist:
And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate , I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what state of mind is propitious for creative work, because the mind of an artist, in order to achieve to the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent, like Shakespeare's mind, I conjectured, looking at the book which lay open at Antony and Cleopatra. There must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed. — Virginia Woolf

Alice dreamed of blood. Blood on her hands and under her feet, blood in her mouth and pouring from her eyes. The room was filled with it. — Christina Henry

Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to approach a decent and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all in between. By de-development we mean lower per-capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence. — John Holdren

Nobody appreciates deliverance like those who've nearly been destroyed. — Beth Moore

living in a culture that surrounds us with reminders of money may shape our behavior and our attitudes in ways that we do not know about — Daniel Kahneman

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish. — Brian Tracy

I despise shopping and department stores. — Bethenny Frankel

Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won. — Sabrina Jeffries

Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past. — David Cottrell

I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman. — Kate Hudson

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe