Stepanick Quotes & Sayings

The second you believe in hell, you're undermining everything good because a morality based in fear can only bring out the worst in people and never their best. — David Ellis Dickerson

The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams. — Tatiana De Rosnay

If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself. — Frederick Lenz

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we don't want to do it. — Peter Marshall

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do. — Majora Carter

Your mistake," Ng says, "is that you think that all mechanically assisted
organisms
like me
are pathetic cripples. In fact, we are better than we
were before. — Neal Stephenson

Readers who wish to follow Whim rather than whim
readers who have learned enough about what he or she really thrives on to seek more of it
the first lesson must be in humility ... Don't waste time and mental energy in comparing yourself to others whether to your shame or gratification, since we are all wayfarers. — Alan Jacobs

It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house. — Jerry Spinelli

I need at least two months to try and figure out where the centre of the bat is. — Sachin Tendulkar

And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I knew that Gisela had no money, and many responsibilities, and that she faced a massive number of unknown but looming challenges. — Piper Kerman

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump. — Joyce Meyer

My husband and I are just really laid back people. — A. J. Cook

Mom is a compulsive reader. She reads for pleasure, she reads to edify herself, but more often than not, she reads because she can't help it. I understand. The minute I find myself sitting still, I start rummaging around for printed material.
p 97 — Michael Perry

I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along. — Jenny McCarthy