Stopes Mining Quotes & Sayings

If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairty tale from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. — Henry David Thoreau

The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. — Laurence Yep

Some mistakes, though, you can't fix by being sorry. Can't fix them, no matter what you do. — Brandon Sanderson

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby. — Mandy Moore

For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time. — Romesh Gunesekera

Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat. — Joseph Heller

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? — Andy Zaltzman

In those months I thought often of what I was trying to do, of how hard it is to keep alive someone who doesn't want to stay alive.

That was what I thought: that I would rather have him suffering and alive - than dead. — Hanya Yanagihara

I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is. — John Green

Killers are clever, victims are the people which are scare from the negativity. That's how it goes and it will go. — Deyth Banger

But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. — C.S. Lewis

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems. — Meg Cabot

If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over
- Suze Simon in the Mediator — Meg Cabot

Not in Utopia,
subterranean fields,
Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us,
the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all — William Wordsworth

And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy. — Patrick Dempsey