Staraji Quotes & Sayings

One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by come chance manage to evade the result of their folly. — W. Somerset Maugham

This is why you have to stop keeping secrets, Matt. They're going to destroy you from the inside. — Deborah Harkness

If you read a story that really involves you, your body will tell you that you are living through the experience. You will recognize feelings that have physical signs - increased heart rate, sweaty palms, or calm, relaxed breathing and so on, depending on your mood. These effects are the same you would feel in similar real-life experiences - fear, anger, interest, joy, shame or sadness. Amazingly, you can actually 'live' experience without moving anything but your eyes across a page. — Joseph Gold

If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons. And by chance there happen to be such women, for, as I touched on before, just as women have more delicate bodies than men, weaker and less able to perform many tasks, so do they have minds that are freer and sharper whenever they apply themselves. — Christine De Pizan

You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered.
"I know her," Ash said in a low voice.
"I can't ... hurt someone I know. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed. — Liang Chow

But, kid, you can't color your world with Lonnie's crayons, if you know what I mean. Especially when he's only using one color. — Day Leclaire

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic
the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done. — Theodore Roosevelt

Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you. — Elvis Presley

Absence has presence, sometimes, and that was what she felt. Absence like crushed-dead grass were something has been and is no longer. Absence where a thread has been ripped, ragged, from a tapestry, leaving a gap that can never be mended. — Laini Taylor

Can't you see that you had to be a reckless drifter to bring ... people a bit of child's folly and child's laughter wherever you went? To make all sorts of people love you a little and tease you a little and be a little grateful to you? — Hermann Hesse

I was brought up with lies all the time ... that's how you got along ... I have lied my entire life ... — Monica Lewinsky

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable. — Nick Matzke