Sternin Quotes & Sayings

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list? — Sylvester Stallone

It's not funny. I've got a naked drunk vampire running around in my orchard. — Ilona Andrews

Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain. — Barry Lyga

No good thing comes from the practice of comparison. What farmer is constantly comparing the young sprout he just planted with the mature, fruitful vines and measuring its height against them? Our Vinedresser does not pit us against one another, and we should follow His lead. — Anna Blanc

The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of "I" is false. — Swami Dhyan Giten

Because it's only ever been you. — Carrie Elks

In Sternin's judgment, all of this analysis was "TBU" - true but useless. — Chip Heath

I wanted to highlight her bruises, mark her skin, so everyone knew she belonged to me. I wanted to brand her, to scar her, to wear her blood as a blatant warning to any man who ever looked in her direction. — Pepper Winters

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. — George R R Martin

You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something. — Eoin Macken

When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes. — Criss Jami

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I wish the first word I ever said was the word quote, so right before I die I could say unquote. — Steven Wright

subgenres are products of the writers' urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic — William Gibson

There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free. — Laura Wasser

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature. — Moliere