Stahlkes Department Quotes & Sayings

Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place. — Florence King

Indifference is the only road that never gets to God. — Peter Kreeft

Sometimes it is really hard to sit in the single and go for a row. I think this is really normal. I, like probably a lot of people, burn out every once in a while. What I have learned from my own experience is that there are two reasons for it to happen. It is that I am either physically tired or mentally tired. If either of these are the case, the wisest decision is to blow off practice. Blowing off practice is healthy. I didn't understand that until I was so burnt out that I wanted to make scrap material out of my single and my oars. — Xeno Muller

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you. — Danny Boyle

What is the Christian's responsibility to this world? Is the Christian's responsibility simply, as the "Great Commission" suggests, to share the Good News of God's Kingdom to others, with the goal of making disciples of all nations and perhaps also, along the way, through acts of charity to help meet the material needs of human beings? In other words, is this the only justification for Christian engagement of the larger world? — Dean C.Curry

Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one. — William E. Conway Jr.

To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage. — Napoleon Bonaparte

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket. — Will Rogers

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal. — Darryl Pinckney

The development of family entities enables men to cooperate far more effectively. Instead of constantly competing for the women with other men, each man essentially has a partner assigned to him, one with whom he can establish a family. — Frans De Waal

Being nervous is a waste of time. — Lindsey Wixson

I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does. — Jimenez Lai

No matter how good your kid is, sometimes life has a way of bringing shit to them that no one can foresee or protect against. If that happens to Kylie, I'll just have to be there to help her get through it. — Jasinda Wilder

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process. — Yingluck Shinawatra