Spustily Quotes & Sayings

I have wanted to "make books" since around the sixth grade, and I published my first book when I was in my late thirties. My point is that the time in between was not wasted - submarine service, marriage, college, bringing up three kids, starting a school for them, and so forth. This kind of life experience is not distracting you from your appointed task of writing. It is, rather, the roundabout blessing of giving you something to say. — Douglas Wilson

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. — Preston Brooks

In life; a mile deep with stress is a mile deep in pain and that needs courage. — Auliq Ice

The Bureau doesn't have any secret files. — W. Mark Felt

The word of God is complete, and those who don't preach the word in its fullness are false teachers. — Monica Johnson

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. — Natalie Merchant

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged. — George Clooney

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality. — Baron De Montesquieu

195. "God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me a right faith, a sure hope, a perfect charity, sense and knowledge, so that I may carry out your holy command. — Francis Of Assisi

He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly. — Edward St. Aubyn

Maybe a girl needs to hear that. Maybe she wants to be with you, too." The words come out in a rushed whisper. — Susan Ee

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished. — Rajneesh