Sowards Quotes & Sayings

In order to be good, you must recognize the difference between right and wrong and strive to choose the right. To be truly evil you must do the contrary. Being good or evil is a choice. — Brandon Mull

There are always possibilities. — Jack B. Sowards

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan. — Carl Von Clausewitz

I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing
I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn't really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project
it's an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing. — Slavoj Zizek

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power. — Samuel Johnson

Over time, the life of a productive artist becomes filled with useful conventions and practical methods, so that a string of finished pieces continues to appear at the surface. And in truly happy moments those artistic gestures move beyond simple procedure, and acquire an inherent aesthetic all their own. They are your artistic hearth and home, the working-places-to-be that link form and feeling. They become - like the dark colors and asymmetrical lilt of the Mazurka - inseparable from the life of their maker. They are canons. They allow confidence and concentration. They allow not knowing. They allow the automatic and unarticulated to remain so. Once you have found the work you are meant to do, the particulars of any single piece don't matter all that much. — David Bayles

You can't go fishing while you're anchored in the desert. — Jayce O'Neal

Where there should be remorse, regret, longing, grief, there is, of course, only me. The black hole, the white canvas, the empty room. — Kelsey Sutton

Is natural to touch more often the part that hurts. — Seneca.

Now you lady, you can go an' run your arse up a cheesegrater — Ian Pattison

I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person. — Gabrielle Union

[The Internet] ... is an amazing communications tool that's bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on to America Online in your hometown, and it's just staggering to think that at the same moment, halfway around the world, in China, someone you've never met is sitting at their computer, hearing the exact same busy signal that you're hearing. — Dennis Miller

Whenever someone says the word "month" to me, I call up an empty square filled with other empty squares, days, and hours and minutes, bricks on bricks spiraling inward, pinwheel and diamond, and herringbone patterns marching smaller and smaller to some vanishing point. — Patricia Lockwood

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me. — Andy Andrews

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong

And no matter what you are experiencing in your life right now, trust that all is good and unfolding in your best interests. It may not look pretty, but it is exactly what you need to learn for you to grow into the person you have been destined to become. — Robin S. Sharma